The "Dally Telegraph's" coup in giving to the world the first details of the now famous Abyssinian of con-Jeession is now discovered to have yet another whimsical facet. The copy Jor that journal now to hand by the mail shows that the delicate reticence [which withheld specific mention of the feat deprived Shanghai of the knowledge that the journalist responsible ]was @ man well-known and esteemed here—Sir Percival Phillips. Sir Perclval has long had the reputation of being on ko spot where world events Jare occurring.. He recently transfer~ red his allegiance from the "Daily Mait" to the "Daily Telegraph," owing, it was asserted in Fleet Street at the time, to certain differences of opinion. with' Lord Rothermere. There must! have been some wry faces in North-clite House when it was known that, former colleague had put into the bonnet of the older journal in Fleet Street preper " bright feather which
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