WESTERN ABYSSINIA
FOREIGNERS LEAVING BANDIT-RIDDEN COUNTRY (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Oct. 6. News has been . v-ceived in T ondon that Captain Erskine (British Consul at Gore) is making good progress with the evacuation, .d is expected shortly to . rive at Gombela, 100 miles distant. He r>ceeded over mountain passes through oandit-ridden country by mule and train, with a party of foreign nationals, mostly Greeks, ahead of him and followed by Ras Imru, at one time commander of 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 Sirama, who consider it safer to stay rather than risk the perils of 'he journey.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23006, 8 October 1936, Page 9
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