ADDIS ABABA

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22687, 27 March 1937, Page 11

ADDIS ABABA

MASSACRE DENOUNCED MR. HENDERSON'S CHARGE (Received March 26, 5.5 p.m.) T,ON DON, March 25 i Speaking on the motion for adjournI mcnt in the House .of Commons to-dav. Mr. Arthur Henderson called attention to the shoek to public opinion created by the Addis Ababa massacre. He said the horror nas accentuated, as the excesses had been perpetrated by a Christian country. The American Minister at Addis | Ababa had allowed 700 Abyssinians to take refuge in the American compound until he received the Italians' assurances that they would be properly treated and their lives spared. Nevertheless, they had been butchered like cattle when they left the compound. Mr Henderson said lie hoped Britain still had the moral courage to protest against this ruthlessness. .Air. Lloyd George said that Britain's foreign policy had been a succession of blunders. Her action in Manchuria had been an utter fiasco and in Abyssinia a humiliation. He asked if Britain had abandoned every pledge to Abyssinia, and if she had taken any steps in the League with a view to entering a great international protest against the most horrible massacre of modern times. The Foreign Under-Secretary, Lord Cranborne, said that Britain throughout the Abyssinian dispute was concerned collectively with the league, which without British membership would not have taken any action. Lord Cranborne promised to bring | Mr. Lloyd George's points before the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden. The House then adjourned until April 6.