BASE LIES AND WICKED RUMORS.
REGARDING SAFETY OF TRANSPORTS. INDIGNANT REPUDIATION BY MINISTER. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. ' "I depreciate, in the strongest possible terms, these idle rumors which are in circulation about our transports," said the Hon. J. Allen to-day. "There have been persistent rumors that one of our transports has been sunk. The public must understand that if any such information came to me it would be immediately made public. There is no reason to withhold it. Sad as the news might be, it would be made known. Such rumors as have been circulated are not only idle, they are all wicked, and they make thousands of people miserable. There is a rumor that there is something wrong with the Tahiti. She is perfectly safe. Both of the transports that conveyed the 15th Reinforcements have reached their destination safely. Ido hope people who hear these baseless rumors will write me and tell me who it was that told them. If they do, then I will trace the rumor to its source and see it I can stop anything of the kind happening in the future."
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 October 1916, Page 5
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188BASE LIES AND WICKED RUMORS. Taranaki Daily News, 5 October 1916, Page 5
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