SWEDEN SEEKS INFORMATION.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 69, 3 January 1936, Page 5

SWEDEN SEEKS INFORMATION.

ETHIOPIAN OFFICIAL REPORT. (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, January 2. Sweden has no representative at Addis Ababa, her interests being watched by the British Minister. Con-. sequently the Swedish Government asked Sir Sidney Barton, on its behalf, to seek from the Ethiopian Government an official report on the bombing of the Red Cross unit. Sir Sidney Barton transmitted the request. ITALIAN 'PLANE BROUGHT DOWN four; occupants incinerated. (Received This Day, 1.5 p.m.) DESSYEy January 2. It is claimed that the Abyssinians brought down an Italian ’plane, incinerating the four occupants, nho were were machine-gunning Wolkait. MUTINY IN LIBYA, NATIVES MURDER AN OFFICER. (Received This Day, 1.5 p.m.) ROME, January 2. It is officially admitted that a mutiny occurred in Libya, where native troops murdered an officer. A Government spokesman says it is a normal, unimportant case of insubordination. - WAR INSURANCES! REDUCED. LONDON, January 2. The war risk premium for cargo to and from the Mediterranian Sea has been reduced to 40 per cent, per £IOO. “UNITED AND DETERMINED.” ITALY PREPARES FOR OIL EMBARGO. LONDON, January 2. The Rome correspondent of “The Times” says the newspapers are using the lull in political activity to reassure the Italian public and the outside world that Italy is perfectly content with her internal situation and the military position in Abyssinia. The forty-fifth day of the economic siege, it is claimed, finds Italy as united and determined as ever to pursue her present policy. All possible national and international steps, it is added, have been taken to meet the threat ol an oil embargo if that “false spectre” should assume concrete form.