ABYSSINIAN ENQUIRY ENDS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19144, 29 October 1927, Page 15

ABYSSINIAN ENQUIRY ENDS.

ATTACK ON BRITISH CARAVAN. (BRITISH OFFICIAL .WIRELESS.) RUGBY, October 27. The Court of Enquiry which has been sitting at Harrar, in Abyssinia, to investigate the circumstances in which a 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, the Belgian Minister The Court has awarded 25,000 dollars; or £2500 to the British, including 10.000 dollars already paid. Tho Court recommended the dismissal of Gadla Giorgis, Chief of Jigi^a. °lt will be recalled that the Maharao of Cutch and his grandson, together with Sir Geoffrey Archer, former Governor of British Somaliland, and later Governor-General of the Sudan, went on a shooting expedition into the Arussi Countrv. The Regent of Abyssinia, Ras Taffari Makonnen, had given the party permission to make the expedition. Meanwhile, a caravan set out from Hargeisa, in British Somaliland, to meet the Maharoa and Sir Geoffrey Archer. When this caravan was about a dav's march from l>aggar Bur it was attacked bv Abvssinian soldiers. Eigbt British Somalis were killed and 10 wounded.