Paris, Nov. 15.
A practical joke played on the Paris press by an Englishman is the source of amusement throughout the city to-day. All Paris papers had printed accounts of an endurance run by the British sportsman Kenneth Bailey from London to Paris on the Occasion of the closing of the Paris World Exhibition, and numerous photographs of Bailey showing his running up and down the decks of the Queen Mary lent interest to the stories.
Photographs of his reception by a British delegation in front of the British Pavilion and of lanes of curious spectators lent further authenticity to the report. It then developed that the whole thing was a Hoax and that Bailey had made the trip by boat and train as well as subway to a suburb near the exhibition and had started his so-called endurance race from there. The papers now demand in chorus that as penalty Bailey should be made to run back to London.—Trans-Ocean-
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