Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 December 1941 — Page 28

ITALIANS CRUEL Brn T0 ETHIOPIANS

6000 Slain in Reprisal When Grenade Was Hurled At ‘Butcher’ Graziani.

By WILLIAM A. STONEMAN

LONDON, Dec. 12.— When a eh hand grenade was hurled at Mar- R {4 shal Rodolfo, “the butcher” Gra- R he” zianl, Italian viceroy of Ethiopia, Rs at Addis Araba in February, 1937, H the Italians massacred 6000 men, i women and children in reprisal.

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According to the same story, which British officers in Ethiopia believe to be substantially true, these men were then mutilated and machine-gunned. The remaining 500, according to the same story, were made to dig their own graves and then shot.

Survives to Tell the Story

A Sudanese corporal and two privates who were captured by the Italians during the Anglo-Ethiopian 2 attack on Debra-Marcos last April, Rayon Satin

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Ethiopians Not Abusive

The Ethiopians had plenty of Justification, according to their own | § code, for doing anything they felt | A like doing to the Italians once the latter were in their power. It is now an. established fact that they did not abuse this power. ¢ When the 14,000 Italian troops surrendered to 140 British troops and 2000 patriots at Woggadu, on

May 23 of this year, the whole batch a of prisoners was marched 100 miles 4 across the country to Fiche with a p ®

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