FOREIGNERS LEAVING ABYSSINIA
TASK OP BRITISH CONSUL AT GORE
(BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.)
RUGBY, October 6
News has been received in' London that Captain Erskine, the British Consul at Gore, in Western Abyssinia, is making good progress with the evacuation of British and foreign nationals, and he is expected shortly to arrive at Gombela, 100 miles distant.
Captain Erskine proceeded over mountain passes through a banditridden country by mule train with a party of foreign nationals, mostly Greeks, ahead of him and followed by RasTmru, a one-time commander in the Abyssinian Army. Ras Imru is leaving Abyssinia and has been given permission to settle in Uganda. Practically all foreigners have left Western Abyssinia except a few traders at Jimma and some missionaries at Sirayia, who consider it safer to stay rather than risk the perils of the journey.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21908, 8 October 1936, Page 11
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