TERRIBLE SCENE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12751, 6 January 1936, Page 5

TERRIBLE SCENE

,- BOMBING OF SWEDISH RED CROSS

“WHOLESALE MURDER’ >

SURVIVORS’ GHASTLY STORY

SCORES OF DEAD „ DYING. AND

WOUNDED

(U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright). (Received Jan. 5, G. 30 p.m-) ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 4

An aeroplane brought from Dolo, Dr. Itylnnder and Ir’s' assistant, Dr. Lundstrom and many of those, wounded in the a',r raid on the Swedish Red Cross ambulance. Dr. Lundstrom was severely wounded and’ died en route to .hospital. Dr. Ilylandcr gave, a graphic account of the bombing. IT© said : “It was an utterly deliberate act. The Italians for several days prev!-, ously machine-gunned all round the ambulance. I was in tlie -operating tent, on the' 1 morning; of the bombing. Suddenly - .'a perfect tornado of bombs and. bullets .rained l .down- I had just time to, see two lines of three planes each enfilading the ambulance when f was wounded and lost consciousness When, I nwp,ke ft was to see the most terrible scene of., carnage imaginable. -Scores of dead, dying land wounded were around me. I. heard shrieks and . groans amid the crackle of the blazing tents. Thei’o must have boon more than two hundred bombs and thousands, of rounds fired from machine guns. Dr. Lundstrom, though severely wounded, kept- crying: ‘I must, attend the wounded.’

“Has Desta’s men rushed up and immediately began to transport- the wounded to cover. There was absolutely no excuse for the raid. The Red Gross emblems were prominently displayed. The Italian allegation that Abyssinian chiefs and soldiers were faking' refuge in the ambulance is completely baseless. My assistant’s say that the Italians flew very, low, knowing that they were immune from fire from us. There was no place for the staff and patients to shelter. We had no guns and could only wave white flags. It was wholesale murder- ,

The beds containing the wounded were blown thirty beet in the air. Two patients on the operating table were killed instantly. Many wounded were half-buried by earth and stones. Dr. Lundstrom had part of his face blown away. After the bombing, in which two .ambulances were blown up the aeroplanes circled and returned with a machine-gun unit.” The transport of the wounded from Dolb was a- wonderful feat on the part of the Swedish- Baron Yon Rosen, who piloted a Fc-kker ambulance plane over unknown and difficult country.

EGYPTIAN RED CROSS AT HARR-AR.

ENG LLSH 3fISSJONARIES

PRESENT

rtJ.P.A. by Elec. Teh WwiyngnU. (Received Jan. 5, 7.00 p.m.) ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 5. The English missionaries, Dr. David Stokes and H. Dawkins, are attached to the*Egyptian Red Cross at Farrar, which the . Italians bombed.

THE ALLEGED ATROCITIES

ABYSSINIA APPEALS TO LEAGUE

INVESTIGATION SUGGESTED

OJ.P.A. by Elec. To'. Cooyrigfit) Jan. 5, G. 30 p.m.) GENEVA, Jan. 4.

Citing alleged Italian atrocities, the Abyssinian 'Government has requested an impartial inquiry into the conduct of the war, and suggests that the Committee of Thirteen is a competent authority to carry out the investigation which should be prompt, in order to “prevent atrocities which will have incalculable consequences for the whole African continent and piow an insurmountable obstacle to the restoration of peaco in East Africa.”

EGYPTIAN PEI) CROSS EFFORTED BOMBED

NO DETAILS

ICf.P.A. bv Elec. Tel. Copyright) . IT ARAB, Jan. 4.

Italian aeroplanes are reported to have, bombed air Egyptian Red Cross unit at Dagnbur. more than a mile from the troop encampments. It is not known whether there are any casualties.