Cablese

Wales Parisward smorning omnistation cheered stop he said friendship proFrance unceasing.

Station cheered Wales to Paris this morning he said friendship always for France.

London, March 11--The Prince of Wales left for Paris this morning. All those present at the station cheered him wildly. He said: "My friendship for France will always be with me."

The first paragraph is written in cablese. The second is a skeletonized cablegram. The third is the way such a story might finally appear in U. S. newspapers. Since Jan. 1, the Western Union Telegraph Co. has been prohibiting the use of cablese by press associations and newspapers. This cablese, with its word contractions, its elaborate prefixes and suffixes, had nearly become a code; hence, the ban. The Western Union Telegraph Co. does not object to skeletonized cables, so long as they confine themselves to dictionary words.

Said J. H. Furay, vice president in charge of foreign news of the United Press: "The [Western Union] regulation is really not new. The United Press has not been using contractions for some time, and the experience has shown us that skillful filers are able to say in plain English, condensed and skeletonized, the same things without using 'cablese' and in the same number of less words."