ADDIS ABABA MASSACRE

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 393, 27 March 1937, Page 5

ADDIS ABABA MASSACRE

SHOCK TO PUBLIC OPINION BRITAIN'S ATTITUDE Mr. Lloyd George Attacks Foreign Policy. Press Association —Copyright. London, March 25. Attention to the shock to public opinion as a result of the Addis Ababa massacre was' drawn in the House of Commons to-day by Mr. Arthur (Labour, Kinigswilnford), on a motion for an adjournment. The horror was accentuated, he said, as. the excesses were perpetrated in a Christian country. The American Minister at Addis Ababa had allowed 700 Abyssiniani refuge in the American compound until he received! an Italian assurance that they would be properly treated and their lives spared, added Mr. Henderson. Nevertheless, they ■were butchered like cattle when they left the compound. Mr. Henderson said he hoped Britain still had the moral courage to protest against this ruthlessness. Mr. Henderson also denounced Italian intervention in Spain and demanded a commission of inquiry. Mr. Lloyd George declared that the British foreign policy was a succession of blunders. The action in Manchuria was an utter fiasco; in Abyssinia, it was humiliation; non-inter-vention in Spain was completely ineffective. He asked if Britain had abandoned every pledge to Abyssinia, and if she had taken any steps to the League with a view to entering a great international protest agains the most horrible massacre of modern times'. .