The Archive · 1936

British Red Cross Unit Blamed by Italy

Rome, Jan, 17 Holy disclaims responsibility for] the alleged bombing of a Red Cross ambulance near Dessie on Wednesday, which resulted in the death of fourteen persons and injuries to 35 others.

Tt is authoritatively stated here to-Jday that Italian aeroplanes, bombed camps, one containing 200 tents and many troops, and the other 500 teriis. If an ambulance were hit, it was its own fault for, in accordance with the Red Cross Convention, it should not be stationed among Aighting troops, it is stated here, The ambulance was under the command of a Briton, Major Burgoyne, Whose tent was destroyed but who escaped injury—Reuter.

Rome, Jan. 17.

Reports of the bombing of a British Red Cross unit by lallan airmen were emphatically denied here last

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