| Summary: | Fliers Seek Revenge For Ethiopian Losses: Italy Orders Mass Reprisals In District Where Ten Aviators Were Killed On June 26. Fliers Seek Revenge For Ethiopian Losses: Italy Orders Mass Reprisals In District Where Ten Aviators Were Killed On June 26. ROME, July 8 OP).—Addis Ababa reported today that a fleet of airplanes had been sent into the hinterland to deal out swift punishment to Ethiopians who killed ten aviators. Mass reprisals were ordered against the district in Wallega Province, Western Ethiopia, where the aviators were ambushed after they had alighted on a reconnaissance flight June 26. Addis Ababa heard of the killings only yesterday from the Rev Father Barollo, a passenger, who escaped from the hostile tribesmen. Three of the victims were among Italy's best airmen. They were General Vincenzo Magliocco, who during the Ethiopian war was assistant chief of aviation in East Africa; Major Antonio Locatelli, member of the Balbo mass flight to Chicago in 1933, and Colonel Carlo Cajderini. Major Locatelli, who was a member of the Chamber of Deputies and Mayor of Bergamo, was rescued by the United States cruiser Richmond near Cape Farewell, Greenland, in 1924, during an attempted transatlantic flight. Italian newspapers, cautiously printing the official communique announcing the ambush on an inside page, were careful to point out the "massacre" did not mean that organized and armed opposition existed in Ethiopia. It was emphasized the aviators were ambushed by "bandits." The official statement said the air mission previously had landed at other points in the district and had been welcomed cordially by the populace. LONDON, July 8 UP).—A Reuter news agency dispatch said tonight it was reported in Rome that thirty Italians had been slain in ambush in Wallega Province, Ethiopia.
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