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HEARST'S CHICAGO AMERICAN FALLS FOR "PLANTED" FAKE WAR STORY New York, Nov. 28. Trapped by a "planted" fake story, stating that a "Russian battleship Fliba had been blown up with-a-JoBS of about 450 lives," H. L. Linder, a telegraph op erator in the office of the New York Globe, was arrested yesterday on the complaint of the Associated Press. It was charged that Linder sent the fake A. P. bulletin to the New York News Bureau, a ticker concern. This ticker concern delivers its service to other newspapers and press associa tion offices in New York, but has no connection of any kind whatever with the United Press. The fake story after being sent out over the ticker wires in New York was picked up by certain news agen cies and spread over the country. The United Press papers throughout America were protected from this fake yarn because the United Press had no connection with the deal in any way and carried no reference to the story. Hearst's Chicago American Friday afternoon carried the following story: "London, Nov. 27. The Russion battle cruiser Fliba, formerly the Is mail struck a mine in the Gulf of Finland on Tuesday and was sunk with a loss of 450 men, according to a dispatch received here today from Petrograd. "The Fliba, thus renamed after war broke out between Turkey and Russia, was laid down at the Baltic naval shipbuilding plant on Dec. 19, 1912. She was designed to be one of the most powerful fighting ships afloat. Information from the Russian admiralty has variously stated her displacement to be 28,000 to 32,000 tons. "Although known as a battle cruis er she was in rality a powerful dread naught. Her armament consisted of nine 14-inch guns and twenty 5.1 inch guns. Her armor consisted of nine-inch belts. Her nine 14-inch guns were in three batteries, fore, aft and amidships, three guns to each battery. "This is the third big ship that has been lost by Russia since the war broke out. The Pallada was sunk in the Baltic and the Jemtchug was sunk in the harbor of Penang." FRENCH DRAMATIST IS MUM ABOUT FUTURE PLAYS "f" --'ii- Etcene 3eux New York. Eugene Brieux, the French playwright, whose eugenic drama, "Damaged Goods," set the world a-talking last year, has come to New York for a brief visit, but he evidently intends to -let the public do all the talking he, refuses to be in terviewed. Brieux came to America to repre sent the Academie Fra'ncais at tfte American Academy of Arts confer ence in New York.