Geneva, Apr. 26.
The International Red Cross is obaged to hold aloof from any action which might have a political charact-jer, declares M. Huber, President of the International Red Cross, in reply-jing to-day to the protest by the League of Nations against the refusal of the Red Cross to supply information concerning alleged atrocities in Abyssinia, The reply stresses the neutrality of the Red Cross, which, it states, must always maintain relations of mutual onfdence with both belligerents— battles on both fronts. Twenty-eight officers and men succumbed to Wounds, 114 died. of illness, and four are reported missing—Havas, lallans Threaten Massacre Addis Ababa, Apr, 27- threat to massacre the populace and raze houses to the ground unless they submit to the Ilalions, is con: tained in leaflets dropped from Mahan aeroplanes which circled over the capital this: morni The leaflets, worded In Amharic and signed by the Chief of Staff of Marshal Badoglio point out that if the Ethiopians submit. they will benefit, as the Italians will bring trade, prosperity and civilization.
The Italians, it is added. have captured the whole north of Abyssinia and Ogaden and will soon enter Addis Ababa "with the help of God."
Addis Ababa to.proceed to Djibouti and take the first available boat home.
"The ambulance anit arrived at the Ethiopian capital from the north two days ago—Reuter,
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