ISLANDERS BOMBED.
Italian Planes Reported in Action. STORY FROM GREECE. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received April 19, noon .) LONDON. April IS. The “ Manchester Guardian ” says: “ There are grave reports, denied by the Italian Embassy in London, but nevertheless coming from Athens, that Italian aeroplanes and warships bombed the island of Rhodes, which is governed by Italy, though the inhabitants are mostly Greeks. “ Athens insists that the trouble was political, necessitating troops shooting unarmed villagers, but Italian reports, which are strictly censored, insist that the affair was simply a drunken brawl of no significance.’* The Island of Rhodes, situated in the Aegean Sea. twelve miles from the coast of Asia Minor, has an area of 550 square miles and a population of 45.000. The island was occupied bv Ttalv during the Italo-Turkish War ©f 1912, being then a Turkish possession, and after the Great War was ceded to Italy.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20284, 19 April 1934, Page 1
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