AWFUL CARNAGE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 21, 6 November 1935, Page 5

AWFUL CARNAGE

ITALIAN ATTACK FROM AIR.

LARGE CARAVANS WIPED OUT.

FEW ESCAPE FROM BOMBS

’United Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, .8,45 a.m.) LONDON, November 5.

An Addis Ababa, report states that Italian ’planes wiped out Abyssinian caravans conveying munitions and petrol from British Somaliland. They were the largest caravans since the opening of hostilities. The carnage was frightful, few escaping slaughter.

PHOTOGRAPHS OF MUSSOLINI.

GREAT DEMAND BY NATIVES. (Received This Day, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, November 5. The Rome correspondent of “The Times” says that an Italian war correspondent in East Africa describes how the of the occupied territories are anxiously asking for photographs of Signor Mussolini to hang in their huts. In order to meet this wish an official Italian photographic organisation has been ordered to print thousands and thousands of thp famous photograph showing Mussolini standing erect on a tank.”—“Times.” PROPOSED EXTENSION OF SANCTIONS. CO-OPERATION OF OUTSIDE POWERS. !*- LONDON, November 4. The economic sub-committee lias agreed to a ban on coal, steel, iron, oil and petrol, if the nations which are not applying sanctions agree. The Committee of Eighteen is expected to invite the co-operation of the non-sanetionists on November G.

ETHIOPIA REORGANISES POLICE

AUSTRIAN NAZI ENGAGED.

LONDON, November 5.

The Addis Ababa correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says Captain Rudolph Brunner, who served fpur months’ imprisonment for participation in the Austrian putsch, in which Dr. Dollfuss was murdered, and was then expelled from Austria, has been engaged by the Emperor to reorganise the Abyssinian police force. Captain Brunner is reported to have brought 100 German, machine-guns from Berlin'

FRENCH PRESS PESSIMISTIC.

SMALL HOPE OF SETTLEMENT.

THE DUCE’S DETERMINATION,

(Received This Day, 9.20 a.m.) PARIS, November 5

The Press considers that the Italian advance averts all hope of a settlement and proves that Signor Mussolini is determined on a resounding military triumph.