WESTERN ABYSSINIA
CONSIDERABLE UNREST
POSSIBILITY OF DISORDER (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June il. Questioned in the House of Commons on the present position in Abyssinia, Viseount Cranhorne said the Government had no information that since the capture of Addis Ababa on May 5 and of Harrar and Dircdawa shortly afterwards there had been any great extension of the area which was occupied by the Italian forces during the concluding stages of the campaign. Reports from Western Abyssinia indicated the existence of considerable unrest and general insecurity, a feature of the latter being the hostility between the Galla and Amhara elements in the population. Having regard to the possibility of disorder in this part of the country, the British Consulates at Mega and Maji had l>een temporarily closed in view of cih» suring the safety of their staffs.
BOMBING OF AMBULANCE
LONDON, June 9,
Dr Ralph Hooper, a member of the American ambulance division in Abyssinia, discloses that Ras Dosta, during n customary hurried retreat, commandeered a Red Cross lorry and loaded it with ammunition, but before the work was completed the Italians put him to flight and captured the lorry. Shortly afterwards they decided to bomb ambulance units.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22904, 11 June 1936, Page 9
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