Bisbee daily review., 1918-11-08
NUNCHAUSEN WILL FEEL ENVIOUS OF
 THIS GREAT COUP
United Press Pulls Greatest Fake Beat of the Age and Arouses Entire Nation to Ill., Timed Enthusiasm
CBy Review Leasea Wire,

! ing had ended threw the country in a delirium today and turned out to be the greatest hoax of recent years. Official assurances that the report was false failed to check the almost Iiotous demonstrations which swept over many American cities and mil lions of Americans will not know how they were fooled until they read the morning papers.
 A dispatch cabled from France to the United Press and picked up and circulated through the country by an- other news agency declared the armis- tice signed at II o'clock this morning and fighting ended at ? o'clock this afternoon.
 None of these unfounded reports, of course, was received or distributed by the Associated Press, which, on the contrary, was able by investigation conducted through official channels to establish that the story was a hoax. Official dispatches from France to the state department at Washington testify that the German commission CTS were not even to meet Marshal Foch until 5 o'clock this afternoon and dispatches received tonight from the American army on the Sedan front show that at 6:30 D. m. the troops were advancing.
 After cabling to France and receiv- ing an official reply, Secretary Lan- sing from the state department in Washington issued this statement:
 The report that the armistice with Germany had been signed is not true. When it reached the department of state this morning an inquiry was at once dispatched to Paris. At 2:04 o'clock this afternoon a telegram in reply to that of the department was received from Paris. It stated that the armistice had not yet been signed and that the German representatives would not met Marshal Foch until p. m., Paris time, or 12 noon, Wash ington time"
 , The false report was not easily Overtaken by the truth and as it spread through the country it gath cred momentum until demonstrations approaching hysteria ruled in many cities. Business was suspended, schools were closed, bells were rung, whistles shrieked, prayers were of fered in churches, parading citizens jammed the streets and the scenes usually attendant on New Years eve and election night were intensified.
 The New York stock exchange as well as the curb market, were closed at 2:30 p. m., after hurried meeting of the governors. market which at first appeared to be unresponsive suddenly developed activity which shot up some of the so-called peace stocks from ? to 12 points. Elk changes in other cities were similarly affected.
 Here follows a copy of the cable gram received by the United Press at it's New York office:
 "Unipress, New York:
 Paris: Armistice allies signed II morning; hostilities cease afternoon. Sedan taken morning by Americans.
 (Signed) HOWARD.
 ''Simms"
 (Unipress cable code address for United Press; Howard is Roy w. How ard. president of the United Press, and Simms is William Philip Simms, Paris correspondent of the United Press)
 To grasp the situation it should be borne in mind that Paris, being to the east of the United States is about six hours ahead of New York time. Although it had been announced that the armistice was signed at Il o'clock and that fighting had ceased at o'clock, it was fact that the German commissioners were not to be received by Marshal Foch until , o'clock three hours after the hour re- ported as the end of the fighting.
 The state departments cable of in- quiry to France was not dispatched until after the reports had been called to the departments attention and when a reply came, saying the armis- tice had not been signed and the fight ing had not ceased more time had elapsed.
 Al 3:35 o'clock in Paris it was off cially announced that four German officers bearing a white flag prob ably would arrive at Marshal Foch's headquarters some time tonight That WAS OuG uOuI anu thirty-five minutes after the hour re- ported as the end of the fighting and Associated Press dispatches filed with the American army on the Sedan front at 6:30 o'clock tonight showed that an hour and a half after the German commissioners had been expected the troops still were fighting their way forward This dispatch said clearly that the American army was consoli- dating its positions and preparing for a further advance.
 Then it was 6:3O o'clock tonight in London the foreign office pronounced unfounded the rumor that the armis- tice had been signed and at that hour no word had been received in the British capital that the German dele gation had crossed the French lines. It should be borne in mind that tt was then four hours and half after the hour reported as set for the ces- sation of hostilities and more than seven hours after the hour reported as the signing of the armistice. Gov ernment telegraph lines connect Lon don and the British headquarters, not