FRENCH LEGATION TELEGRAPHS FOR HELP.
ENRAGED ABYSSINIANS BESIEGE COMPOUND. (Press Association—Copyright.) Received 10.30 a.m. To-day. PARIS, May 3. The French Minister at Addis Ababa has telegraphed M. Flandin asking for help. He says that the Legation is menaced. Its inhabitants number 1200, including Italian prisoners of war who were sent to the Legation for safety. When the Emperor left, this enraged the Abyssinians, who fired thousands of shots at the compound walls, killing two Armenian refugees. A cablegram from Rome this morning states that the vanguard is expected to reach Add s Ababa to-day. The advance pwing to the reports of looting. Troops and lorries pressed forward last ni ?ht, picking their way along the terrible roads with the aid of s sarchlights. It has been arranged thaslso aeroplanes will land at the airport simultaneously with the arrival of the troops at the gates of the city.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 121, 4 May 1936, Page 5
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