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Intimation of the birth of a prince was first conveyed to the Lord Mayor of London at the Mansion House by the Duke of York by a telegram which reached his Lordship at half-past eleven on Saturday night, and which was as follows: "The Duchess gave birth to a son at ten to-night.

Their decisions were also influenced by a telegram sent by Arthur Zimmerman, the German foreign minister, to Germany's Mexican ambassador.

When the four-man party had done with their peak they arrived in Ranikhet to be greeted by a telegram inviting two of them to join Shipton's party.

Prittwitz, having moved his headquarters northward to Mühlhausen (Młynary), was surprised on August 22 by a telegram announcing that General Paul von Hindenburg, with Ludendorff as his chief of staff, was coming to supersede him in command.

"I have never had any dealings with Messrs Gabriel," thundered one of them, "and beg to know by what right do they disturb me by a telegram which is simply the medium of advertisement?" The Times helpfully reprinted the offending telegram, providing its senders with further free publicity.This was, notes Matthew Sweet, a historian, the first example of what is known today as "spam".

British anger had already been aroused by a telegram that, on the advice of his foreign secretary, William had sent in 1896 to President Paul Kruger of the South African Republic, congratulating him on defeating the British-led Jameson raid; and alarm followed anger as the implications of the German Naval Bills of 1897 and 1900 sank in.

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