The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-04

ANNA6 WI Va ~ ototNo IL
CATION from the British
compound.
Copyright, 1886. by United Pressl
Pillaging natives, infamed
by impending Italian occupa-
ton of Adds Ababa, attacked
the American and other for
eign legations today. Several
white persons were reported
killed or wounded as they
stood off the crazed natives.
A stalwart little band of Ameri-
cans in the United States legation
compound fought off one attack by
looting Ethiopians, but was so hard
pressed that an appeal had to be
made to the British for machine
gun and soldiers.
Two native women in the Ameri.
can quarters were wounded. Pre-
viously Mrs. A. r. Stadin, wife of
an American missionary doctor, had
been killed by a stray bullet.
Await Italians Arrival
All regular communications had
failed long ago as Emperor Halle
Selassie fled from his capital for
Jerusalem and the natives pillaeed
and burned much of the city. The
story of bloodshed, rioting and
chaos in the capital was pieced to-
gether from terse dispatches sent
over United States, British and
French diplomatic wireless stations.
restoration of order awaited ar
rival of the triumphant Italians.
Native contingents already were en-
camped on the outskirts of the city.
Plight of the handful of Ameri-
cans barricaded in the legation COM
pound was told graphically IN mes
Sages to Washington from Minister
Cornelius Van H. Engert.
Turn Back Attackers
Ethiopian bandits attacked at o
a. m. All the white women, ex-
cept Mrs. Engert, had been taken
to the fortified British compound
previously. She was in the gar
den when the natives opened fra.
Some of the men had gone to aid a
hospital.
With revolvers, rifles, shotguns.
swords and spears the few remains
ing Americans beat off the attack.
killing or wounding at least one
bandit. Then the Infatuated natives
returned.
Mr.. Engert twice tried to send an
appeal for help to the British, four
miles across the city. The messen-
gers could not get through. FL
nally, to get his appeal through those
TOUR miles, he had to send it thou
sands of miles by radio.
Asks British Troops
BY radio he asked the State De-
partment in Washington to have
the British send them "a Lewis gun
and few sikhs"-Indian fighting
troops who compose che British le-
cation guard.
Washington telephoned the re-
quest to London, which was unable
to relay 1t at once because it had
lost its wireless contact with the
legation in Adds Ababa.
AT 5 p. m. adds Ababa timel
Mr.. Engert wirelessed Washington:
The situation is getting worse.
Several direct shots have been fired
at the legation building, including
the radio station, since this morn
ing. Two native women in our
servants quarters have been seri-
ously wounded"
French Legation Attacked
AT about the same time, the
French minister wirelessed Paris
that the natives we're attacking his
legation.
British newsmen reported over
the government wireless that 10
foreigners had been killed so far
and that much of the city had been
burned by the natives.
The vanquished Halle Selassie.
meantime, boarded the British
cruiser Enterprise at Djibouti.
French Somaliland.
Foreign Minister Anthony Eden
informed the British House of Com
mons that the Negus has renounced
all pretense at directing Ethiopian
af1airs-which means to all practical
purposes that he has abdicated.
In Rome, with the hour of COM
plete italian triumph close at hand,
Premier Benito Mussolini told the
Chamber of Deputies that he had
ordered a mobilization of all Fas-
cists for an unspeeified time. at
which Il will make the announce
ment you are expecting "-the occu-
patton Of Adds Ababa.
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