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                           WESTERN RESOURCES ANNOUNCES
                          NEW SHAREOWNER MEETING DATES

         TOPEKA, Kansas, April 4, 1997 -- Western Resources today announced that
     its Annual  Meeting of  Shareowners  has been  scheduled  for May 29, 1997,
     Topeka.  Shareowners  of record on April 18 will be  entitled to attend and
     vote at the annual meeting.
        Western Resources also announced a special meeting of its shareowners on
     June 17, 1997, to consider its proposal to issue Western  Resources  common
     shares in  connection  with its offer to acquire ADT Limited,  the nation's
     largest monitored security company.



        Western  Resources  (NYSE:WR)  is  a  full-service,  diversified  energy
     company with total assets of more than $6 billion.  Its utilities,  KPL and
     KGE,  operating  in Kansas and  Oklahoma,  provide  natural  gas service to
     approximately  650,000  customers  and  electric  service to  approximately
     600,000  customers.  Western  Resources,  through  its  subsidiary,  Westar
     Security,  also is the nation's third-largest  monitored security provider,
     operating  in  46  states  in  the  U.S.  Through  its  other   unregulated
     subsidiaries,  Westar Energy,  Westar  Capital,  and The Wing Group, a full
     range of energy and energy-related  products and services are developed and
     marketed in the continental U.S. and offshore.

        For  more  information   about  Western   Resources  and  its  operating
     companies, visit us on the Internet at http://www.wstnres.com.

This press  release/employee  update is neither an offer nor an  exchange  nor a
solicitation of an offer to exchange shares of common stock of ADT Limited. Such
offer is made solely by the  Prospectus  dated March 14,  1997,  and the related
Letter of  Transmittal,  and is not being made to, nor will  tenders be accepted
from or on behalf of,  holders of shares of common  stock of ADT  Limited in any
jurisdiction  in which the making of such offer or the acceptance  thereof would
not be in compliance with the laws of such  jurisdiction.  In any  jurisdictions
where  securities,  blue sky or other  laws  require  such offer to be made by a
licensed  broker or dealer,  such offer  shall be deemed to be made on behalf of
Western  Resources,  Inc. by Salomon Brothers Inc; Bear,  Stearns & Co. Inc; and
Chase  Securities  Inc, or one or more  registered  brokers or dealers  licensed
under the laws of such jurisdiction.