ABYSSINIA UNREST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 136, 10 June 1936, Page 7

ABYSSINIA UNREST.

Hostility Between Tribes In the West. BRITISH CONSULATES CLOSE. .British Official Wireless. (Received 1.30 p.m.) RUGBY, June 9. Questioned in the House of Commons on the present position in _ Abyssinia, Viscount Cranborne, Foreign • UnderSecretary, said the Government had no information that since the capture of Addis Ababa 011 May 5, and Harrar and Diredawa shortly afterwards, there had been any great extension of the area -which was- occupied by Italian forces during the concluding stages of the campaign. Reports from western Abyssinia indicated the existence of considerable unr.est' and general insecurity, a feature of the latter being hostility between Galla and Amliara elements in the population. Having regard to the possibility of disorder in this part of the country the British Consulates at Slega and Maji had been temporarily closed in view of the impossibility of ensuring safety of their stall's. RED CROSS BOMBING. | American Doctor Explains Italy's Action. • A HASTY ETHIOPIAN. (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON', June 9. Dr. Ralph Hooper, an American ambulance official in Abyssinia, discloses that Ras Desta, during a customary, hurried retreat, commandeered a Red Cross lorry and loaded it with ammunition, but before the work was completed the Italians put him to flight and captured the lorry. Shortly afterwards they decided to bomb ambulance units.