WESTERN ABYSSINIA
PROGRESS WITH EVACUATION BRITISH CONSUL LEAVES GORE {British Official 'Wireless.) £ress Association —By Telegraph —Copyright RUGBY, October 6. (Received October 7, at noon.) News has been received in London that Captain Erskine (British Consul Mi Gore) is making good progress with the evacuation, and is expected shortly to arrive at Gombela, 100 miles distant. He proceeded over mountain basses through bandit-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 hr my. Ras Imru is leaving Abyssinia hud has been given permission to settle In Uganda. Practically all foreigners have left (Western Abyssinia except a few traders tot Jimma andl some missionaries at tSh-ama, who consider it safer to stay father than risk the perils of the journey.
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Evening Star, Issue 22463, 7 October 1936, Page 11
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139WESTERN ABYSSINIA Evening Star, Issue 22463, 7 October 1936, Page 11
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