The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-05

SWOEuSs
 Flash Word of Rescue
 United States legation safely evacuated this morning" Barton radioed the foreign office.
 Then came his report that tho Italians were near.
 His third report came laconically and disclosed that a detachment oi the Slkhs was rushed to the Bel. gian legation, a little northwest oi the British legation, and repulseo with casualties an attack on 1t al 6 p. m. yesterday.
 After driving off renewed at tack at midnight the detachment IS now holding the Belgian legation The situation at p. m. IS 1alrlV quiet in this sector" Left with Flying COlOrs
 From the seven words of Bartons message on the evacuation Of the American legation, the foreign ottice read that Cornelius Van H. Engert, American minister, his wife, his crew of four navy wireless men, his little staff and a handful of refugees had left the legation with flying colors, the legation documents and yaluables safe.
 For four days they had stood seize by drunken, enraged warriors in the city's most dangerous quarter hop ing until the last that the long de- layed Italian column would arrive
 Soon after the evacuation of the American legation, tho word came from the British correspondents that refugees were flocking into the British legation. The British French and Belgian legations were the principal remaining strongholdi of the beleaguered foreigners. {,
 British Compound Crowded z
 Despite the influx of refugees there were 2000 in the British Ice gation compound before the new ar. rivals - the correspondents said there was food for a considerable time.
 The big Mohammed Ali stores, containing the city's only outside supply of food, remained intact, they said, and Q party of Russians, in A sortIe from the British legation, repelled @ native attack on the stores and returned in triumph after a seige there.
 A Red Cross man named Jounod missing for several days, was found safe in an outbuilding of @ hotel which had been burned.
 The city was becoming more quiet the correspondent reported, as many natives were making for the south with their loot.
 Small groups, they said, were on the way north, vowing to resist the Italians.
 The American legation was evac- uated only when Engert felt 1t abso- lutely necessary. He sent women and children, except his wife, to the British legation Sunday night, but remained with the men.
 Resisted to Last
 To the last Engert resisted the ale most flat orders of Secretary of State Cordell Hull to abandon the lega- ton, pleading that he could hold out.
 But today, the fifth day on which the Italian entry had been expected 1t was indicated that Engert be- lieved he was no longer justified in risking the lives of those with him
 He had a few i'll assorted weapons and a small supply of ammunition to withstand the attacks of bandits.
 Immediately upon receipt of Bar tons message, at 11:10 8. m. C5:10 g. m. EST) the foreign office ur- gently telephoned the American embassy and Ambassador Robert Worth Bingham flashed the state department which kept an all night watch at Washington.
 Almost at the same time that the foreign office received Barton's dis patch, Paul Bodard, French minis ter at Addis Ababa, advised the Quai D'Orsay that Ras Hailou, gov- ernor of Gojjam province, arrived in Addis Ababa last night and gave battle to the bandits, still roaming the streets.
 Fought Bandits We'll
 He had only 150 men, Bodard re- ported, but they were well diciplined and, fighting the bandits in organ- ized manner, arrested hundreds of them and relieved pressure on the legations.
 Bodard reported that he was able this morning to go through the city seeking Europeans, and succeeded in taking to the safety of his own com pound the last Frenchmen. Fifty of them had held out for days in the barricaded station Of the French owned railway. repelling attack af- ter attack of men who sought the rich loot in 1t.
 Now there are some 1000 foreign CTS in the French legation and 2.000 in the British legation.
 The British have their 250 Elkhs picked from the best troops of the Indian army. with five white officers and five machine guns.
 The American legation was on the west side Of Addis Ababa, a little building most unfayorable sit- uated for defense, near the teemlna Arab quarter and weirdly strange marset. where disorders nearly al- ways start
 To syacuale the legation. it wal neeeasary for the stan to cross thf