ROME BROADCAST.
a FANTASTIC NONSENSE." COMMENT BY MR. FRASER WELLINGTON*, Thursday. A cablegram received in Wellington to-night from Sydney stated that a radio broadcast from Rome Uported that a rebellion in Wellington v«is preventing the embarkation of troops for overseas. When the Prime Minister, Mr. Fraser, was at>ked to comment for the purpose of refutation bv the Australian short-wave radio to Europe, he said the people would be highly amused when they learned of this fantastic nonsense. Obviously this lie was too ridtculoue to warrant serious notice from him or any other responsible source. The whole-hearted devotion of all the people of Xew Zealand to the British call*? and their determination to assist to the utmost of their power in the successful prosecution of the war against Hitler and Mussolini needed no reiteration on his part, concluded Mr. Eraser.—(Press Assn.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 218, 13 September 1940, Page 3
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