| Summary: | 8 Italians Massacred In Ethiopia. 8 Italians Massacred In Ethiopia. By Associated Press. LONDON, Tuesday, July 7.—A Reuter's (British) news agency dispatch from Rome tonight said eight or nine Italian officers, including the noted flyer, Col. Antonio Locatelli, were killed from ambush when they alighted from a plane in Jimma Province, Ethiopia. The report later was denied from Rome. The dispatch said the officers had been invited to the province by local presidents, to establish a garrison. An unofficial report said the officers, in three machines, were attacked as soon as they landed. The victims were said to have included a deputy chief of air staff, whose name was not given. Jimma Province, southwest of Addis Ababa, is not yet completely occupied by Italian troops. Antonio Locatelli, then a lieutenant, was rescued from the sea off Greenland in August of 1924 by the United States Cruiser Richmond, after he had been forced down with his three companions on an attempted flight from Italy to America. The Italian had abandoned plans to fly to the North Pole, and left Reykjavik, Iceland, with the American round-the-world fliers, Lowell H. Smith and Erik K. Nelson, on a perilous 825-mile hop to Greenland. The Americans reached Greenland, but Locatelli was found 125 miles east of Cape Farewell. He had been forced to alight on the sea because of motor trouble, and had drifted for 100 miles before he was rescued.
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