“CAMPAIGN OF LIES”
Rome Repudiates Report From Addis Ababa
SOLDIERS NOT EXPELLED By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rome, -March 30. The story that 200 soldiers have been expelled from Abyssinia is officially denied in a communique which specifically refers to the news published by "The Times,” London. o The communique states that the story is all false, having been fabricated at Jibuti or in London, and constituting another element in the campaign of lies against Italy. The Viceroy of Abyssinia, Marshal Graziani, is not ill. He has recovered from _ his wounds, and returned to his residential palace long ago.
“Tlie Times” report referred to stated that owing to their participation in the massacre at Addis Ababa last month, the Viceroy, Marshal Graziani, bad 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 hands of doctors. He was still in hospital, having suffered a severed artery behind the knee during the bomb-throwing incident, further details of the reprisals showed that the Italians’ indiscriminate firing killed some of their own countrymen.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 158, 1 April 1937, Page 11
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