Just as the British Foreign Ministry received a telegraph from the French Embassy, the telegraph office of The Times also received a message from the French Havas Agency... or rather a message sent in the name of the Havas Agency.
When the telegraph operator at The Times translated the Morse code into text and read it through, he immediately burst into the editor-in-chief's office, who was staying at The Times.
"Editor-in-chief, big news! Big news!" The telegraph operator shouted loudly to the editor-in-chief, who was slumped over the desk, while shaking the telegraph in his hand.
The editor-in-chief, hearing the telegraph operator's shouts, opened his sleepy eyes, yawned, and lazily asked, "What big news?"
"Look! Look!" The telegraph operator hurriedly slapped the telegraph in front of the editor-in-chief.
The editor-in-chief picked up the telegraph and began to read its contents. After a while, the originally lazy editor-in-chief astonishingly sprang to life.
