PERILOUS TREK.
FROM ABYSSINIA. British Nationals Evacuate Disturbed Area. MISSIONARIES REMAIN. British Official Wireless. (Received 1 p.m.) RUGBY, October 6. News has been received in London that Captain Erskine, British Consul at Gore, Abyssinia, is making good progress with evacuation of British nationals in that disturbed area. He is expected shortly to arrive at Gombela, 100 miles' distant. He proceeded over mountain passes, through bandit-riclden country by muletrain with a party of foreign nationals, mostly Greeks, ahead of him and followed by Ras Imru, one-time commander of the Abyssinian Army. Ras Imru is leaving Abyssinia and lias been given permission to settle in Uganda. Practically all foreigners have left Western Abyssinia except a few traders at Jimma and some missionaries at Sirama, who consider it safer to stay rather than risk the perils of the journey.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 238, 7 October 1936, Page 7
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136PERILOUS TREK. Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 238, 7 October 1936, Page 7
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