'Strassburg Hoax' In Wales.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 2, 1913:
Military Officials Are Victims of a "Mobilization" Order.
    CARDIFF, March 1.— The Welsh military authorities were the victims last night of a hoax similar to that which recently caused the German garrison of Strassburg to assemble for inspection by Emperor William, whose approach was announced by a practical joker.
    Military and police officials received apparently authoritative instructions to begin the mobilization of the territorial troops, who, it was said, were to be put on a war footing. Walls, hedges, and hoardings were promptly placarded with the mobilization order, and telegrams were sent to all territorial soldiers residing in outlying districts. The arrangements for billeting the men on the inhabitants of the towns were well under way before the hoax was discovered.