ERITREAN DEMAND
ETHIOPIA
(Rec 10.40 a.m.) 1 ( LONDON, July 31.
Armoured cars-.are patrolling the streets of Asmara-■ after rioting by Eritreans who favour the annexation of the country by. Ethiopia, says Reuter’s Asmara correspondent. A crowd attacked and damaged Arab-owned houses and shops- and called on Emperor Haile Selassie’s representative with a petition for transmission to the Paris conference, demanding annexation. Five leaders of the demonstration were arrested and 120 persons -were detained.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 August 1946, Page 7
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