"REBELLION IN N.Z."
ROME RADIO LIE
ANSWER BY AUSTRALIA
(Received September 14, 1.30 p.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. On Thursday, morning the Rome radio stated that New Zealand was experiencing open rebellion and troops had been stopped from leaving the country in order ta 'put down 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's 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 the following item: "At Wellington, New Zealand, owing to an outbreak of rebellion in the Dominion, troops for Bri-' tain had to be .stopped from leaving the country." A transcription of the broadcast was taken by the Department of Information and cabled immediately to the New Zealand Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser, and he cabled back an emphatic denial. This denial was embodied in last night's special broadcast in all foreign languages.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 66, 14 September 1940, Page 12
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