AMERICANS IN DANGER
Bullets Strike Compound JOURNALIST’S SABRE WOUNDS ( Received May 3. 7.30 p.m.) Washington. May 2. By means of an emergency portable radio apparatus operated by naval technicians at Addis Ababa, the State Department was kept in fairly constant touch with Die American Minister. Mr. Engert. to-day. With the exception of Mr. Ben Ames. I'nifed Press correspondent, who suffered sabre wounds in attempting to make his way through a mol). Mr. Engert reported that none of the 90 American residents in Ethiopia was injured. Those within the Legation compound underwent extreme danger, however, ns ;i number of stray bullets struck the walls. The rioting linally' subsided and Mr Eugert informed the department that he would cease communications pending a new threat of danger at the Legation,
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 185, 4 May 1936, Page 9
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127AMERICANS IN DANGER Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 185, 4 May 1936, Page 9
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