CITY’S “REVOLT”
By Telegraph—Press Association
HUMOUR FROM ROME HON. P. FRASER AMUSED "FANTAST1C NONSENSE"
Wellington, Last Night. A cablegram received at Wellington to-night from Sydney stated that a radio broadeast from Rome reported that a rebellion at Wellington was preventing the embarkation of New Zealand troops for overseas. When the PrimD Minister, the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser, was asked to comment for the purpose of refutation by Aiistralian short wave radio to Europe he said the people of New Zealand would be highly amused when they learned of that fantastic nonsense. Obviously the lie was too ridiculous to warrant serious notice from him or any other responsible source, he said. The wholehearted devotion of all the people of New Zealand to the British cause and their determination to assist to the utmost of their power in New Zealand the successful prosecution of the war against Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini needed no reiteration on his part:
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1940, Page 8
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156CITY’S “REVOLT” Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1940, Page 8
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