Khartoum, Mar. 22 A British ambulance was bombed by allan planes at Chilga, 20 miles north of Lake Tana, according to reports reaching Khartoum to-day. The unit was commanded by Dr. Kelly..No details concerning the extent of the damage or the number of casualties have been recelved—Reuter, Addia Ababa, Mar, 23, The civilian population of Harar, strategic centre on the eastern front, re evacuating the town in anticipa~ tion of an aerial bombardment by Mahan aeroplanes, Evacuation orders were issued as result of yesterday's bombing of ijiga, forty" miles north-cast Harar, which, according to reports Fecelved here, resulted in the des truction of a Finnish Red. Cross ambulance unit and numerous houses, It Is stated that one patient was killed and six wounded when the ambulance was destroyed, while 03 persons were injured during the course of the raid, Many buildings were burned to the ground, while others were reduced to debris, The raid was carried out, by a squadron consisting of nineteen biz Caproni planes, Seventeen tons of explosives were dropped during the bombardment which Jasted an hour and a quarter, Ten Indian employees of a Britis Mohammedan firm had a narrow escape from death, a bomb destroying slare where they had been working 4 few minutes after they had lett the premises, They owed their lives to another Indian, a former manager of a Bombay firm, who, when the Talian Geneva to Request Both Sides to Stop War London, Mar. 23, After a session made particle arly dimeult because the Italian government has not officially recorded its approval of the new Locarno plan, the Committee of Thirteen decided to-day to appoint its chairman, Senor de Madariaga of Spain, and the Secretary-General of the Longue, M, Joseph Avenol, to approach the governments of Italy and Ethiopia jon the possibility of ceasing hostilities in the spirit of 8 the Covenant, The delegate from Beuador was absent and Dr. A. Martin, Ethlopian Minister "io London, who arrived late, occupied a nolghbouring room "unit the session 8 over. It will be. followed by another to-morrow after: noon—Hava:
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