AIR RAID ECHO

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 74, 9 January 1936, Page 5

AIR RAID ECHO

TWO HONOURS CONFERRED. ,

ORDERS FOR SWEDISH DOCTORS. " / AIR SEARCH FOR THIRD MAN. ("United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 8.30 a.m.) ADDIS ABABA, January 8. Haile Selassie has conferred the Cross of War on Dr. Hylander, and, posthumously, on Dr. Lundstrom, who were in charge of the Swedish Red Cross unit which the Italians bombed from the air. Red Cross circles are anxious for the safety of Dr. Agge, who is commanding a small Swedish lied Cross detachment which left the main unit a fortnight ago, and is believed to have gone north-east of Dolo. Baron yon Rosen, the Swedish aviator who rescued the other doctors after the bombing, is making an aerial search. The rains continue throughout Abys- ' sinia, holding up operations. , TWO NEW REGIMENTS. KING PRESENTS STANDARDS. (Received This Day, 9.43 a.m.) ROME, January 8. For the first time in nine months, the King of Italy and Signor Mussolini appeared together at a military ceremony, when the King presented two new regiments with their standards. BRITISH READINESS FOR WAR. INDUSTRIAL MOBILISATION. LONDON, Jan. 8. The Air Minister, Lord Swinton, speaking at Cambridge, said that in order to prevent war it was necessary for industry to be organised so that it could be mobilised for war on a large scale, and the whole world must know it. REQUEST FOR INQUIRY. RENEWED BY ABYSSINIA. (Received This Day, 1 p.m.) GENEVA, January 8. . The League Secretary-General has received' a ; renewed request from the Abyssinian Government for an inquiry into* Italian atrocities, including the use of gas. This follows an expression of opinion in League circles that the Committee of Thirteen, to •* which Abyssinia referred its previous .protest, was not competent to consider it. BRITISH SHIP CHEERED. AN INCIDENT AT NAPLES. (Received This Day, 1.30 p.m.) NAPLES, Jan. 8. Coinciding with the Queen of Italy’s birthdaty, Captain Matheson, of the Oronsay, wirelessed the agents to send records of the Italian National anthem and the Fascist hymn, “Giovinezza,” aboard as he entered the port. These were broadcast through Jdud speakers as the steamer berthed, producing the first cheers for a British ship at Naples for many months.