HC Deb 29 July 1927 vol 209 cc1685-6W
Colonel DAY

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whether he will state the reply received by His Majesty's representative in Addis Ababa from the Abyssinian Government with regard to the claim put forward for compensation for the outrage committed by an unprovoked attack made in June last on a caravan taking supplies to the party of His Highness the Maharao of Kutoh, in which several British Somalis were killed by Abyssinian soldiery.

Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN

His Majesty's representative at Addis Ababa and the Abyssinian Government are both pursuing their inquiries into the case. Meanwhile no specific claim for compensation has been made by His Majesty's representative, nor have the Abyssinian Government made any final reply to his preliminary representations.