Post by Diarist on Jun 11, 2016 19:14:18 GMT 1
League of Nations officials announced that they had received a communication from Ethiopia asserting that Adwa had been bombed by Italian warplanes. Emperor Haile Selassie informed a Reuters correspondent: "I have just received the news that the first bombs dropped by Italian planes on Adwa fell on the Red Cross Hospital there, killing and wounding nurses." The Second Italo-Ethiopian War had begun.
Haile Selassie ordered a general mobilization.
The first phase of the war began with De Bono's invasion of Abyssinia in the north.
Haile Selassie ordered a general mobilization.
The first phase of the war began with De Bono's invasion of Abyssinia in the north.