Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1917 — Morse Code Failed. [ARTICLE]

Morse Code Failed.

A Chinese entered the office of the Western Union Telegraph company at Evansville a few days ago and left a telegram with Ivan Bennett, the signal clerk# The yellow man said the telegram was to be sent to Chicago. Bennett hung the telegram on the hook for the operators and John Black, an operator, got it. The telegram was written in Chinese and Black and the other operators were unable to decipher it. They got an interpreter before the message could be sent. —Indianapolis News.