AMERICAN KILLED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 104, 4 May 1936, Page 7

AMERICAN KILLED.

Missionary's Wife Hit by Stray Bullet. TEARS TOR LEGATION. (Received 2 p.m.)' WASHINGTON, May 3. Mrs. A. R. Stadin, wife of an American attached to the Seventh Day

Adventist Mission, was killed by a stray bullet during further rioting in Addis Ababa, according to a radio report to the State Department from the United States Minister, Cornelius van Engert. Sporadic messages during the day confirmed European reports that many were killed in the capital and that several whites had been injured.

Mr. Engert indicated that the positionof the American Legation was .unsafe and an effort would probably be made to evacuate it. The occupants ; it is assumed, would take refuge in the British Legation.

IN THE CAPITAL. Looting By Hooligans and Disbanded Troops. ASYLUM FOR THE EMPEROR. PARIS, May 3. Reports from Addis Ababa state that, immediately the Emperor's departure was known hooligans and disbanded soldiers looted the Imperial Palace and armed gangs roamed the streets shooting wildly and pillaging. So far theie have been no casualties. French residents have taken refuge in the Legation, which is protected by machine-guns. Members of the Ethiopian Government left in motor cars with the Imperial archives. They are believed to be heading for Gori, 60 miles south-west of Addis Ababa.

Speculation has begun in Paris regarding Haile Silassie's future. The Foreign Office spokesman says he will be treated with every respect. As a monarch in distress he is entitled to embark on any vessel, and he would be permitted to reside in France.

However, the question arises whether an Italian warship in the Red Sea might search a neutral ship suspected of carrying the Emperor, with a view to liis capture.

Official circles In. Paris are surprised at Haile Silassie's unexpected departure from Addis Ababa, although it was anticipated that the Kin press and other members of the Royal Family would go to French Somaliland, after a recent inquiry by the Emperor from the French Minister at Addis Ababa as to whether France would object .to the Royal Family's arrival there. The Minister replied in the negative.