ABYSSINIA.
i EX-EMPEROR ESCAPES. | ' PRIME MINISTER ARRESTED. j Reutcr Service. j Received Aug. 27. ID p.m. ! Adis Aboba. Aug. 27. The ex-Emperor Lidjiassu of Abvssinia escaped from Magdala. 'where he had lieen surrounded for six months, after defeating three hundred Government troops, and succeeded in taking refuge in a neichboring mountain. The Prime Minister has been arrested and put in chains for conspiring to overthrow the" Government. ROLL OP HONOR. CASUALTY LIST. I By Telegraph -Progs Association. Wellington, Last Night. 1 Reported killed in action:— Temp. Lieut. H E. Standring Lieut. E. A. Mu;de. Reported died c.f wounds: Private G. E. N\ ilson. Reported wound, o —Gunner J. R. A. Scrimshaw, Private F. R. Littler, Rifleman A. Friis. ; Reported wounded, admitted to hospital.—Drivers W. C. Norman, C. Collins. Corporal J. H. J. Timniings. Privates R. S. Greeks. R. Morgan, L. Brosmihan, L. .J. Quin. RifHnen R. Bason, N. C. Green. S. Hale. T7. J. Halstead, R. ,1. Strawbridge, L. D. Wlritfold. Reported slightly wounded remnininc with unit—Private H. H. Cook, SecondLieutenant C. H. Fjlfe.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 August 1917, Page 5
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