ITALIAN RADIO LIE ABOUT DOMINION
EMPHATIC DENIAL ISSUED LONDON, September 13. On Thursday morning the Rome radio stated that New Zealand was experiencing open rebellion. Troops had been stopped from leaving the country .to put down an uprising. On behalf of New Zealand and Australia the Department of Information made a special short-wave broadcast throughout the world last night stating that the 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 Britain have stopped leaving the country.” A transcription of the broadcast taken by the Department of Information was cabled immediately to the Prime Minister of New Zealand, the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser. He cabled back an emphatic denial, which was embodied in last night’s special broadcast in all foreign languages.
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Southland Times, Issue 24232, 16 September 1940, Page 6
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153ITALIAN RADIO LIE ABOUT DOMINION Southland Times, Issue 24232, 16 September 1940, Page 6
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