IN DIRE STRAITS
TIGRE POPULACE
ITALIAN ATROCITIES ALLEGED.
(United Press Association—By Electric
Telegraph—Copyright.)
(Received this day at 11 a.m.) LONDON, November 23,
An Addis Ababa communique alleges two hundred starving, terror-stricken refugees, some of them women hugging do hi babies to their breasts, staggered into Abyssinian camps in the north, declaring the. population of Tigre was suffering intensely owing to the Italians commandeering grain and cattle, assaulting girls, bombing the villages and pursuing the inhabitants with' ma-chine-gun fire. Large numbers of women and children have died of starvation, and the population of the territory is suffering such cruelties that they would flee, but they would immediately be shot down if they attempted to cross the Italian lines.
£433,000,000 LOAN SUBSCRIPTION
(Received this day at 11 a.m.)
ROME, November 23
Ofctobre reports £433,450,000 has been subscribed to the internal 5 per cent loan, floated to pay war expenses. Part of the subscription represents conversion of other loans.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 November 1935, Page 5
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