ITALY'S REPRISAL.
CIVILISING MISSION.
Severity of Addis Ababa Affair
Confirmed.
ROME'S REBUKE IN REPLY. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 12 noon.) LOXDON, March 3. Official quarters in London confirm the seveVity of the Italian reprisals in Addis Ababa, except that they regard the report of 6000 being dead as an over-estimate.
They say it is clear that a "civilising mission" was carried out comprehensively. Fifteen inferior-type bombs were thrown. Several high officers, not mentioned by the Italians, were wounded, while many natives, who are British subjects, were arrested but released before the massacre commenced.
"It is nobody's business except Italy's," was a Rome Government spokesman's terse comment on Press reports that upwards of 6000 Abyssinians were slaughtered when Italian soldiers and labourers were given arms and told to "run amok" in the native quarter of Addis Ababa, as reprisal for a recent bomb attack on the Viceroy, Marshal Graziani.
The spokesman added that "other Governments do not give information about suppression of colonial revolts, and we won't either." However, he vouchsafed a statement that "the reports are exaggerated."
ITALY'S REPRISAL.
Auckland Star, Volume LVXIII, Issue 53, 4 March 1937, Page 7
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