DESERT BATTLE
ATTACK ON CARAVAN SOMALIS KILLED By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. Reed." 11.32 a.m. RUGBY, Wed. A court of inquiry which has been sitting at Harrar, in Abysßinia, 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, M. Orrand, the Belgian Minister. It has awarded 25,000 dollars to the British, including 10,000 dollars already paid. The court recommended the dismissal of Gadla Giorgis, a chief of Jigiga. It will be recalled that the Maliarao of Cutch and his grandson, together with Sir Geoffrey Archer, a former Governor of British Somaliland and later Governor-General of the Sudan, went on a shooting expedition into the Arussi country. The Regent of Abyssinia, P.as Taffari Makonnen, had given the party permission to make the expedition. Meanwhile a caravan set out from Hargeisa, in British Somaliland, to meet the Maharao and Sir Geoffrey Archer. This caravan was attacked by Abyssinian soldiers. Eight British Somalis were killed, and 19 wounded. —A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 186, 27 October 1927, Page 15
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195DESERT BATTLE Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 186, 27 October 1927, Page 15
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