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`` Find out at what hour the news reached Moscow -- not now , but within the day . '' '' ` I will . ' '' `` Go on , then . '' '' ` Cardinal Malpas communicated it within five minutes of Cardinal Ruspoli , and the rest of the inquiries arrived before midnight . China reported it at twenty-three . ' '' `` Then when do you suppose the news was made public ? '' '' ` It was decided first at the secret London conference , yesterday , at about sixteen o'clock by our time .