Mr Savage Denies Rumours
IPer Press Association. Copyright.! DUNEDIN, This Day. A denial that he had received yesterday a message of sensational importance concerning the international situation was given by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, in an interview last night. 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 treasures 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. Hopes for peace were not yet completely exhausted, he said, and there was no doubt that evex’yone would wish that war might yet be averted.
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Northern Advocate, 29 September 1938, Page 8
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