BRITAIN DENIES ITALIAN CHARGE.
A Geneva message reports that the League Secretariat today received a long Note from the British Government, with reference to Italian allegations that Abyssinians had been using dumdum bullets, supplied by British firms. The Note denies that any firm in the United Kingdom has supplied the Ethiopian Government with dum dum or explosive ammunition for military purposes, and recalls the stringent control over exports of ammunition and implements of war exercised by Britain. —(8.0. W.)
explanation why he did not land
at Taumarunui yesterday, as he intended, was given by Mr W. M. O’Hara on his return to the Waikato airport at Rukuhia. Mr O’Hara said he was not prepared to risk a landing on the Matapuni racecourse at Taumarunui, on account of the long grass and the limited landing-space available for his monoplane.
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Northern Advocate, 7 February 1936, Page 2
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