The Japanese journalists were continually worrying Dora to give them interviews when she wanted to be nursing me. At last she became a little curt with them, so they caused the Japanese newspapers to say that I was dead. This news was forwarded by mail from Japan to America and from America to England.. Source:The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, v.2 chap. 1:The First War, 1968 More info.(pc site):http://russell-j.com/beginner/AB23-110.HTM