ADDIS ABABA QUIETER.
AFTER WILD NIGHT BY LOOTERS.
REDI CROSS OFFICER SHOT
(Received This Day, 1.55 p.m.) ADDIS ABABA, May 3
Addis Ababa is quieter new and the looting has ended. The town is emptying and heavy rain has reduced the burning buildings to smouldering ruins. The French Minister (M. Bodart) has sent a message announcing that an Abyssinian party, supported by lawless element, was expected to carry out its threat to make a night attack on the French Legation. The centre of the town is a shambles, with many corpses, mutilated in ghastly Abyssinian fashion.
A drunken looter shot a British. Red Cross officer, Dr. Mellv, in the lung with a revolver. His condition is serious, but is responding to treatment.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 172, 4 May 1936, Page 5
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