The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-07

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 Adds Ababa, March Ts-(UP).- The capital Of Ethiopia lived in mCmentary fear of m Italian bofnb- ing raid today. The city was prac- tlcaliy deserted. Nearby Mt. Antoto was crowded with refugees,
 Wireless telephones from the south flashed news that . squadron of planes was passing over Sldamo province, headed for the capital.
 Andre John Nelly, leader of the British Red Gross unit at Koran, in the north, telegraphed that Ital- fen planes Thursday for the sec- ond time "deliberately" bombed the hospital. Government reports said that 20 persons were killed Alto- gether in this boHnbardment. Nelly said that there were no casualties in his unite because, while . large Red Cross ground flsg ripped in the first bombardment had been repaired and respread, the hospital patients had been removed to a distant shelter. Four more patients wounded In the first bombardment died, bringing the total deaths to seven.
 Neither taxis nor other convey. ances could be obtained. They had been chartered by Greeks, Armen- ians and other high bidders to take them out of town at the first sign of danger. The British legation had paths marked out leading to the nearest bomb shelters.
 The Red Gross printed proclarna- tons warning the cittxenfy to leave houses and hide in the bushes ct the first sign of planes. They were widely distributed. Hospital police were assigned to specific areas. The prociAiiationg named stations where wounded would be treated.
 Popular fear was increased by rec ports that Italian planes again bombed Koran, In the north, and killed % persons. It was reported but not confirmed that Q British Red Gross unit there was bombed for the second time. Four more pa. tients of those wounded in the first bombardment died, bringing the total number of deaths to 2. A tri-motored Italian plane Ap. peared over Adds Ababa, the first since the war began, yesterday. It was taken as the hamburger of Q ter- rife aerial bombardment such as the one that killed Major Gerald Archilies Burgoyne, former British army officer, commander fo Q Red Gross unit, ct Magdalo.
 Anti-aircraft guns were hastily mounted at the Imperial palace and on neighboring hill tops. All fire fighting apparatus, composed mostly of empty barrels to be filled with water, was distributed through the town to extinguish fires started by ir sendiary bombs.
 Rain May Interfere
 Adds Ababa, March 7.-(UP).-- Heavy cloudbanks and impending rain forestalled the possibility Of an Italian air raid on the Ethiopian capital today. Despite this reassur. ance, the exodus of natives and for. eigners continued feverishly.
 Britain Sends Protest
 Rome, March 7.-(UP) Britain protested ofiicially against the 1tal- Ian bombing of Red Gross units in Ethiopia today. The protest was presented to Fulvio Suvich. Italian under r-secretary of foreign affairs, by Sir Eric Orummond, British as1- bassador, today.
 Sir Eric conferred with suvich for 20 minutes.
 suvlch, 1t was unedrstood, told Drummond that his office was with- out sufficient ofiicial details concern. ing the bombing to make an im- mediate response but that the mat. ter would be studied carefully and reply made shortly.