HOPING FOR PEACE
MR. SAVAGE INTERVIEWED
NO DISCLOSURES MADE
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, September 28.
A denial that he had received today, a message of sensational importance concerning the international situation was given by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, in an interview.
Mr. Savage said that the information he had received from Europe was very much in accord.with that published in the newspapers, and he was not in a position to make any fresh announcement on the position.
The Prime Minister refused 'to discuss what measures might be taken in New Zealand in the event of war. The Council of Defence had been considering the. position all along .and its plans were ready. He was not prepared to discuss what.might happen in certain eventualities, but-would, wait until those eventualities occurred before announcing any action that might be taken.
Mr. Savage declined to say whether the elections would be proceeded with if war broke out although he gave the impression that preparations for the elections had now gone so far that there would be no point in putting, them off. "
Hopes for peace were not yet completely exhausted, he said, and there was no doubt that everyone would wish that war might yet be averted.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 78, 29 September 1938, Page 10
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