765.84/4931: Telegram
The Minister Resident in Ethiopia (Engert) to the Secretary of State
[Received 1:20 p.m.]
501. Italian authorities inform me that the Ethiopian bands which yesterday and the day before attacked the city have been successfully beaten off with a loss of about a thousand in killed and wounded. Local population remained calm and did not assist the enemy but Coptic Bishop Petros was found guilty of complicity and was publicly executed yesterday afternoon. I am assured that the city is no longer in any danger and that all necessary measures have been taken for the adequate protection of this Legation and of the American institutions.