CARAVAN ATTACKED

Evening Star, Issue 19698, 27 October 1927, Page 6

CARAVAN ATTACKED

AN ABYSSINIAN EPISODE DAMAGES AWARDED. (British Official News.) Press Association —By Wireless —Copyright, RUGBY, October 2G. (Received October 27, at noon.) The Court of Inquiry which has been silling at Harrar, in Abyssinia, to investigate the circumstances in which the caravan on its way to join the Maharao of Cutch and Sir Geoffrey Archer, was attacked in Abyssinian territory last June, has given its award. The court was composed of two British and two Abyssinian representatives with a neutral president (Monsieur Orrand, a Belgian Minister). The court has awarded 25,000 dollars, or £2,500, to the British, including the 10,000 dollars already paid. The court recommended the dismissal of Gadla Giorgis, chief of the Jigiga. It will be recalled that the Maharao of Cutch and his grandson, together with Sir Geoffrey Archer, the former Governor of British Somaliland, and later Governor-General of the Sudan, went on a shooting expedition into the Arnssi country. The Regent of Abyssinia (Ras Taff'ari Makonneu) had given the party permission to make the expedition. Meanwhile the caravan set out from Hargeisa, in British Somaliland, to meet the Maharao and Sir Geoffrey Archer. When this caravan was on its way to Zariba, about a day’s march from Daggar Bur, it was attacked by Abyssinian soldiers. Eight. British Somalis were killed and ten wounded.