Red Cross Bombed Again

Northern Advocate, 9 March 1936, Page 6

Red Cross Bombed Again

ATTACK ON BRITISH AMBULANCE CAMP

(United Press Associatton.-By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright .3 1 (Received 10 a.m.) ; ADDIS ABABA, March 7. The British Red Cross unit encamped near Quorari, which was bombed by Italian aeroplanes on Wednesday when seven patients were killed, was again bombed on Thursday, but there were no casualties among the patients or personnel, who bad previously been placed under cover. Some reports say that 26 natives were killed in the environs of the camp.

The Union Jack droops dejectedly over a scene of utter desolation, where a throng of sick and wounded peasants, women ,%nd children, suffering from horrible gashes and gas burns, mourns their dead. A vast hole gapes in the centre of the Red Cross ground flag, and the wreckage of the operating tent flaps over the, bloodstained table on which the surgeons continued their work after the bombing, amputating the legs of two patients who had been wounded a second time.

A message from Rome says it is officially explained that Major Burgoyne’s column happened to pass an important cross roads,, which had been assigned to the . .Bombers as their objective. The Italian viewpoint is that Major Burgoyne was merely an Abyssinian officer, which precludes special inquiries being made, because Italy does not concern herself with enemy casualties.