ITALIANS EXPELLED

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 157, 31 March 1937, Page 11

ITALIANS EXPELLED

Sequel to Massacre in Addis Ababa ACTION BY VICEROY By Teiegrapb--Press Assn. —Copyright London, March 29. “The Times” says that owing to their participation in the massacre at Addis Ababa last mouth, the Viceroy, Marshal Graziani, has expelled from Abyssinia, over 200 Italians of various ranks in the army and the labour corps.

It was not until 48 hours after the reprisals that Marshal Graziani heard of them, as he had been in the bands of doctors. He is still in hospital, having received a severed artery behind the knee during the bomb-throwing incident.

Further details of the reprisals show that ti. Italians’ indiscriminate firing killed some of their own countrymen. It is also learned that Joseph and Benjamin Martin, sons of the Ethiopian Minister in London, were executed on a charge of complicity in the attack on Marshal Graziani. “Tlte Times” adds that the destruction by fire after the massacre was extensive. Meanwhile, as a result of recent events, Abyssinian foreign trade has almost ceased. British, Indian, and Belgian firms have been closed, and the Italians are aiming to eliminate nonItalian houses.