ETHIOPIAM EVACUATION
FOREIGNERS DEPARTING BRITISH CONSUL MOVES ' (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 1 p.m. RUGBY, Oct. 6. .News lias been received in London that; the British Consul at (lore is making good progress with the evacuation plans, and is expected shortly to arrive at (lonibela, 100 miles distant, lie proceeded over mountain passes and through bandit-ridden country by mule train with a party of foreign nationals, mostly Greeks, ahead of him, and followed by Ras Inn'll, the one-time commander of the Abyssinian army. Ras Lmru is leaving Abyssinia and has been given permission to settle in Uganda. Practically all foreigners have left Western Abyssinia except a few traders at; .limma, and some missionaries at Si ratlin, who consider it safer to stay rather than risk the perils of the ,journo v.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19139, 7 October 1936, Page 6
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