PROTEST AND DENIAL
ATROCITIES AT DESSIE
ITALIAN COUNTER-CHARGES
(Received December 10, 1 p.m.)
LONDON, December 9,
It is reported from Geneva, that tha Abyssinian Foreign Minister has telegraphed to the League a copy of a declaration signed by seven international Red Cross doctors describing in detail the bombing of Dessie, which the doctors "stigmatise before the whole civilised world." Over forty explosive and incendiary bombs, it is stated, were dropped in an enclosure containing Red Cross dressing stations, scores of victims being killed and wounded. It is described as an atrocious and cruel demonstration contrary to all conventions.
A Home message says it is semi-offi-cially denied from Adigrat that bombing atrocities occurred at Dessie. It is asserted that the place was defended by 10,000 troops and that all the eighteen aeroplanes were hit. by bullets. It is known that the Red Cross hospital did not contain wounded and was only sheltering combatants, nearly all the tents being marked with a Red Cross. The bombing was limited to points of military importance. The nurse and M. Georges Goyon, the French journalist, who were reported
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 140, 10 December 1935, Page 9
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183PROTEST AND DENIAL Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 140, 10 December 1935, Page 9
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