#adwa #mustardgas
The US provided oil to Italy and they were able to subdue ethiopia through aerial bombardments and the use of poison gas.
A Red Cross worker there recorded what he saw.
'The patients were a shocking sight. The first I examined, an old man, sat moaning on the ground, rocking himself to and fro, completely wrapped in a cloth.
When I approached he slowly rose and drew aside his cloak. He looked as if someone had tried to skin him, clumsily; he had been horribly burned by 'mustard gas' all over the face, the back, and the arms.
There were many others like him: some more, some less severely affected; some newly burned, others older, their sores already caked with thick brown scabs; men and women alike all horribly disfigured, and little children too.
And many blinded by the stuff, with blurred crimson apologies for eyes.'
The US provided oil to Italy and they were able to subdue ethiopia through aerial bombardments and the use of poison gas.
A Red Cross worker there recorded what he saw.
'The patients were a shocking sight. The first I examined, an old man, sat moaning on the ground, rocking himself to and fro, completely wrapped in a cloth.
When I approached he slowly rose and drew aside his cloak. He looked as if someone had tried to skin him, clumsily; he had been horribly burned by 'mustard gas' all over the face, the back, and the arms.
There were many others like him: some more, some less severely affected; some newly burned, others older, their sores already caked with thick brown scabs; men and women alike all horribly disfigured, and little children too.
And many blinded by the stuff, with blurred crimson apologies for eyes.'