The San Francisco Call - Monday, April 1, 1895
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AN APOLOGY OFFERED.
The London Observer Takes Back What
It Said of Wilde.
LONDON, ENG., March 31 -- The Observer to-day apologizes to Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglass for the statement published by that paper on March 25, to the effect that, after staying a day at a hotel at Monte Carlo, the proprietor, at the request of the other English guests, informed Wilde and Lord Alfred that their rooms had been engaged by others. Both Wilde and Lord Alfred assured the editor of the paper that there was not the slightest foundation for the statement. The Observer continues:
"We take the earliest opportunity of expressing our sincere regret and apologies for the pain and annoyance the statement has caused them."