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MASSACRE CHARGES

Sensational Report By U. S. Consul In Addis Ababa

IMPASSIONED LLOYD GEORGE SPEECH

The butchering of 700 Abyssinians by Italian levees after they had been granted a safe conduct was the grim charge that emerged from the debate on foreign affairs in the House of Commons on Thursday before the Easter adjournment.

THIS STORY WAS REVEALED BY MR. ARTHUR HENDER- SON, LABOUR MEMBER FOR KINGSWINFORD, WHO DECLAR- ED THAT THE AMERICAN CONSULAR REPRESENTATIVE IN ADDIS ABABA REPORTED THAT HE HAD GIVEN REFUGE IN THE AMERICAN CONSULATE COMPOUND TO 700 ABYS SINIANS AFTER THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF THE VICEROY, MARSHAL GRAZIANI

THE REFUGEES REMAINED THERE FOR THREE DAYS

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EK. Mine Development.

Italy. Concludes Political Pact

With Yugo-Sla

US Air Crash

Italy's *No

Arguments

Withdrawal”

Imperial Airways Hero

Spanish Air Raids

To-day's Races

Home Football

Another Clash In North China

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America Bids For Economic Alliance

· PARIS, TO-DAY. PROPOSALS FROM THE UNITED STATES, GOVERN- MENT TO FRANCE AND BRI TAIN FOR CLOSER ECONO MIC CO-OPERATION

TWEEN THE THREE COUN- TRIES WILL SHORTLY BE PRESENTED.

So declares the "Agence nomique et Financiere,"

Tientsin, To-day. states that the American - Am- group of Korean smugglersbassador in Paris, Mr. William clashed with the Chinese police in Bullitt, and America's "Ambas the goods yard of the East Stationsador at Large, here when they were ttempting to Davis, are now on their way to remove cargo without authority on Europe with definite instructions

from President Roosevelt.

O AFTER THE AMERICAN REPRESENTATIVE HAD RE-Thursday.

CEIVED AN ASSURANCE FROM THE ITALIANS THAT THE LIVES OF THE ABYSSINIANS WOULD BE SPARED, THEY LEFT THE COMPOUND.

Directly they left, the American representative reported, "every single- one was butchered like cattle."

MR. LL. GEORGE

rather have Italian anger than Italian contempt and I hope the time will come when we will tall

During the scuffle one of the Kor- eans pulled a pistol and critically wounded a coolie.

The Koreans were arrested and handed over to the Japanese police

Reuter.

Norman

President Roosevelt. the paper declares, wishes to draw the three great democracies the world closely together alliance.”

It is his desire to hasten econo mic recovery in the three nations

to the Italians in a straight- Forthcoming Wedding by certain tariff reductions.

forward and fearless manner.”

Mr. Lloyd George, in a withering · GOVERNMENT REPLY speech, asked what action the Gov

Viscount Cranborne, Under ernment was taking about the

Secretary for Foreign Affairs, re- Abyssinian massacres.

He recalled that an emphatic plying for the Government to the Opposition attacks, said that the protest had been made on the oc-

anxieties of large sections of the casion of the Armenian massacres, and suggested a great international British nation as regards the very protest through the League of Natragic events in Addis Ababa hadi

been abundantly expressed by Mr. tions against the "most horrible

Arthur Henderson and Mr. Lloyd massacres in the last fifty years.”

The veteran Liberal leader ex-George and by the Archbishop of pressed satisfaction that Marshal Canterbury in numerous public Graziani had escaped, "as be is gallant and fine soldier."--

A protest was too late to save the lives of the thousands who had been brutally butchered but it was not too late to save the lives perhaps of hundreds of thousands in the coming mo

RAS DESTA The murder of Ras Dests, he con tinued, was without compa modern history.

"He fights for his

shot like a

without a

the leading

League of

Mr. Lloyd

the shooty citizen of

feeling

amelled

the

ches and other ways.

Government spokesman, he continued, had already made state ments on the subject.

Mr. Henderson and Mr. Lloyd orge pressed him to state what action the Government was taking.

MUST BE DISCUSSED The Ethiopian dispute was never Hon for individual - action but for collective action with the

her members of the League.

e whole subject must be dis- mased and documents examined der the auspices of the League, the light of that examina-

ion must be taken.

He appealed to members to

the

deeply by re-

Future

then adjourned

would till April

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