RED CROSS BOMBED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 1, 2 January 1936, Page 7

RED CROSS BOMBED

SWEDISH HOSPITAL ICT OF 10 ITALIAN PLANES | MANY BELIEVED KILLED -WIDESPREAD HORROR | EXPRESSED.

Telegraph—Press Association—G ryriffht] • Received Jan. 1 10 p.r.■. ADDIS ABABA, De . - 1 Addis Ababa is horrified by a wireless report from Ras Desta that Italians bombed a Swedish Red Cross ambulance 20 miles from Dolo. All the members of j the unit, including 9 Swedes ana 23 Abyssinians. are believed to be killed. The ’planes flew low enough to easily distinguish the Red Cross. The Swedish Consul oi ■ - Ababa has protested to the . The Government has uotiiied the • Swedish Red Cross at ockholm : stating that Dr. Fride Hy lander, commander of the bombed unih is believed to have survive! though he i> wounded. He will b fl"v.;. to Add's Ababa 1 y aeroplane le. Doctor Hanner, Swedi?h Consul at Addis Ababa, is leading 1 r the scene with Baron von I’ • :-- A Swedish i Bed Cross airman v - 1 search for survivors who may include Doctors Eric , Smith and Akke Hoh: . besides a male nurse and also an orderly, though ail : these are believed to liaxc been wounded. Ten aeroplanes participated in sbv attack. News in London. The Time’s Addis Ababa correspond s of 1 ing came from a wirek>- operator at the headquarters of Has Uesta, at Nugelii, the southv::-most extremity- ■ • - the Government th.- total dr-true lion ■ I up with Hannei stating that the t•• * al staff and equipment were a’i destroyed (the; actual Abyssinian voids u.-cd mean ! •‘broken to pieces’’ He asked 1» r a | Red Cross ’plane to carry Dr. Hylander • to Addis J left for Dessye this u"ruing. It will I be immediately recalled and is ex I pected here in the morning (January J) since Italian master or th- , air makes flights from Des.-ye unsafe ■ except at that time. The Government, meanwhile, radioed i Ras Desta for fuller details. Swedish Red < ross flag.- were flown at half mast. The gravest tears aie i entertained fur the safety of the it • maindcr of the unit. The Telegraph’s AddL Ababa cor respondeat sayr that Has Des".a it pressing towards I.ugh. -The bombing ; occurred between the advavce troops I and the main body. Abuna telegraphed words cf the r‘ | iigi"u? leadi • - prot ting ag • Italians burning emmhe- m the re- | treat from Abbi Addi and •: •■nleari; g Abyssinians who desert to t.ie enemy, • threatening them with tl curse v. j Judah Darius. Th- Time’s Kornt says that no information is available j regarding the bombing, th--ugh ofli- | cial circles admit knowledge ot the re- | port. It is worthwhile in tim < ir-’Uin- : stances to recall a me>-ag< l’r--m Modadieco, on Dc-< >-mber to tne . newspaper Mes»ag»ru I A■' i-blo > Cipolia, stating that Italian airmen • recognised near th.; river Gauale Dory a j numerous large tents of a .'Swedish i hospital easily distinguishable by flags ' spread out on the ground ai 4 large | red cro&ses upon the tent-. Europeans ' who formed part of the ambulance, at i the sight of the Italian machine.-, i waved Swedish flag.'', to attract al- i tention of the pilots, with such insistence as to arouse suspicion that the hospital was a make b lief an 1 that , the ter ts hous< I roj ofl s i were advising Ras Desta as to th*. ; leading of hi» army. SWEDEN STRUCK DUMB HORROR AT CRUEL ACT hostility toward- Italians. , Received Jan. 1, 10.52 p.m. STOCKHOLM, Dec. JL The New Year celebrations were overcast by the news of the bvmouig. The country v.jis struck dumb with i horror and indignation by » • tiding' which were disseminated by specie iditions of the newspapers also t-y ’ wireless. Prcs» an l populace txprt--lhe bitterest resent met t t«;u aids ■ Italy. The pt ; ! ' - s • suggests the dopulch of a new ambulance to Aby.-x-inia as the fittest rctvi* . to Italy’s unheard-ot outrage. The people are hostile to all ’ ■ ii , Italians, ] articu ar yto th, ■ r Margins Palermo, whose Legation il police are specially guarding, i > ! broadcast pre-gramme was cnan_ - . from cabaret to classical muric. fl-:g-were flown at half-mast ana a nativ - ■- i subscription opened. Hail Selassie telegraphed Li- . dolences to Crown Brine- Carl. tn president of the Red * ross, whu, j like Gover went - < a at : - decline to comment on the bombing. | though Swedish diplomatists at Ro and Addis Ababa are urgently in structed to despatch reports of tmcurence, which a leading newspaper i deneu:. s as a < me against rm tional law and terrible evidence or the : ferocity of the Italian warfare, stamp- : ing ir RECENT FIGHTING ITALIAN REPORT. IioME. De.-, 30. Marshal Badoglio announces the >tro! actions attendant on the Eri- *.« lumn linking up with the Adi column in th- zone at Tembien resulted in 44 Italians and ?ight Eritreans being kdled. He sUims heavy Abys--nian los.-cs.