BIGGEST LIAR TOO

Evening Star, Issue 23684, 18 September 1940, Page 5

BIGGEST LIAR TOO

NAZI IMPROVEMENT ON DOMINION REVOLT STORY MAORI " REBELLION " AND DISEASE IN CAMPS [Pee United Pkess Association.] WELLINGTON, September 17. German broadcast announcers have made an attempt to improve on the recent report from Rome ai^° un S n £ rebellion in Wellington. The Prime Minister (Mr Fraser) has been advised by the New Zealand High Commissioner in London (Mr W. J. Jordan) that the latest effort from Berlin takes this f °‘™News from Wellington reveals that an alarming revolt has broken out in New Zealand, and that the Maoris have protested against military service on religious grounds on hearing that they would be sent overseas, b.ews has just reached London from Wellington that an epidemic has broken out among the troops, which will in any event make it impossible for them to be sent overseas.” ! , . , , ~ In the course of his reply to Mr Jordan, the Prime Minister, says: “The baseless and ridiculous report of a revolt among the Maoris of New Zealand will cause as much amusement as the earlier report from Rome that a rebellion had taken, place in Wellington. It is well known that a Maori unit is overseas, and that Maori reinforcements have already been formed in,New Zealand and) are eagerly awaiting the time when they will join their brothers. This should be a sufficient refutation, if any were needed, of this stupid nonsense. While it is true that a. slight epidemic of measles broke out among the troops, the situation was never serious, and is now well in hand.”