“MASSACRE IN PROGRESS.”
“BIGGEST THFJ WORLD HAS
KNOWN.”
ETHIOPIANS’ LACK OF ARMS
(Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.)
LONDON, October 4. Mr Noel Monks (the Addis Ababa correspondent of the ,I< Sun-Herald” Service) says that a Government official who has returned from Adowa by aeroplane to-day feared that even more than 1700 were killed and wounded in the air raid. He said the most of the inhabitants were sleeping at the time of the raid and whole families were wiped out. Air Monks adds that there still arc 40,000 men unarmed at Addis Ababa becaiise there is not a single rifle left.
The biggest massacre the world has known is now well under way.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 303, 5 October 1935, Page 5
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