EXPULSIONS FROM ABYSSINIA
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Indian Chain-Store Chvners Told to Go ESPIONAGE ALLEGED
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(Received 1, 11.45 a.m.) ROME, March 31. Signor V. Gayda, the Italian jonrnalist, in an article in the Giornale d'ltalia, announees the euppression of the Mohamed Ali Indian chain-stores in Abyssinia and the expulsion of the proprietors. He alleges that the firm's branches worked on behalf of the British Seoret Service, were the headquarters for British officers and that espionage agents linked up plants for a British invasion of Abyssinia. The British Government has rSquestec an explanation from Italy regarding the order. The company was told on March 6 that it must close down, a time-limit being flxed of 18 days. After strong representations by the British consuls af Addis Ababa and Rome the time-limit was extended indefinitely, but no explanation has been given.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 63, 1 April 1937, Page 5
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140EXPULSIONS FROM ABYSSINIA Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 63, 1 April 1937, Page 5
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