765.84/4308: Telegram
The Minister Resident in Ethiopia (Engert) to the Secretary of State
Addis
Ababa, May 7, 1936—11
a.m.
[Received May 7—10:20 a.m.]
[Received May 7—10:20 a.m.]
305. Detachment of about 50 French Senegalese troops arrived yesterday from Djibouti to guard railway station but left today as no longer needed. Five hundred have been at Diré Dawa for several days and have received instructions to prevent all rioting when Ethiopian authorities depart. Harrar is expected to be in Italian hands in a day or two.
Engert