OPEN REBELLION IN NEW ZEALAND.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXXI, 14 September 1940, Page 10

OPEN REBELLION IN NEW ZEALAND.

ROME RADIO STORY.

Australian Wireless Gives

Lie To Report.

United Press Association.—Copyright

(Reed. 1 p.m.) MELBOURNE, this day,

On Thursday morning the Rome radio stated that New Zealand was experiencing an open rebellion and troops had been stopped from leaving the country to put down the uprisings.

On behalf of New Zealand, the Australian Department of Information in a special short-wave broadcast all over the world last night stated that the Rome radio allegation was a typical Rome radio lie.

At 4.55 a.m. (Australian time) on Thursday, the Rome radio included in its foreign news service £he following item:—"At Wellington, New Zealand, owing to an outbreak of rebellion in the Dominion, troops for Britain had to be stopped from leaving the country."

The transcription .of the broadcast was taken by the Department of Information and cabled immediately to the New Zealand Prime Minister, the Hon. P. Fraser. He cabled back an emphatic denial.

This denial was embodied in lust night's special broadcast in all foreign languages.

ENEMY CLAIMS.

AUt fcAID SUCCESSES

Reed. 2 p.m.)

LONDON, Sept. 13.

An official Berlin communique says a U-boat has sunk six armed merchantmen, totalling 37,600 tons, including one of 7000 tons, already reported destroyed.

The communique claims that British 'planes flying over Germany during the night failed to reach their targets, and dropped a few bombs in residential quarters, also in a village, causing little material damage.

Armed German reconnaissance 'planes bombed industrial plants in London, Bexhill, Brighton and Banbury, and also at other places and seriously damaged an 8000-ton merchantman south-west-wards of the Isle of Man. German bombers attacked the harbour facilities at London and Liverpool on the night of September 12, causing fresh fire* and explosions, and again bombed other British harbours.

One enemy 'plane was destroyed and one German 'plane is missing.

Light enemy naval forces attempted to bombard the harbour of Boulogne on the night of September 14.

NAZI PILOTS ESCAPE.

DEATHS IN ENGLISH TOWN. British Official Wireless. (Reed. 2 p.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 13. Wounded German pilots in a hospital in a south-east town were among many who had a fortunate escape when a hospital was bombed from about 5000 feet by a single raider on Thursday afternoon. Twenty-three other people in the rest of the town -were less fortunate, five being killed and 18 injured.

MESSAGE FROM CANADA.

THEIR MAJESTIES' ESCAPE.

(Reed. 2 p.m.) OTTAWA, Sept. 13. The Prime Minister, Mr. W. L. Mackenzie King, has cabled His Majesty the following iressage:— "My colleagues and I join with the people of Canada in expressing our heartfelt gratitude to Providence for the preservation of your Majesties' lives.

"No enemy act could have served more completely to stir the heart of every part of the British Commonwealth than one so clearly designed to destroy the lives of their King and Queen."