RED CROSS LORRY COMMANDEERED
LOADED WITH MUNITIONS BY RAS DESTA LONDON, June 9. Dr, Ralph Hooper, who was a member of the American Ambulance Division in Abyssinia, discloses that Ras Desta, during a customary hurried ret. eat, 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.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21806, 11 June 1936, Page 13
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