Office of the Historian

765.84/4812: Telegram

The Minister Resident in Ethiopia (Engert) to the Secretary of State

Addis Ababa, July 8, 1936—11 a.m.
[Received 9:58 p.m.]

459. Legation’s 455, July 6. No trains have arrived or left since July 5th. I am reliably though not officially informed that about 3 kilometers of the railway line were destroyed by an Abyssinian band this side of Mojo and killing Italian guard of 40 men at Addas some 25 miles from here.

Engert