Salt Lake Herald | 1900-10-18 | Page 3 | Abyssinians Massacre Two Tax Collecting Expeditions

ABYSSINiANS MASSACRE TWO TO TAX COLLECTING COLL EXPEDITIONS ROme Home R me Oct Oct 17 The Tribuna pub publishes lishes correspondence today from As Asmara Asmara mara southwest of describing ing the massacre masare of an expedition to toLke Lake Assal AsaI The expedition is said to have been composed of British but it itIs itIs Is more likely that the members member were French as a the lake is situated in pos possessions possessions sessions ceded to France by b Emperor Menelik of Abyssinia Abyssinia It I seems that tat the column numbering vent Went to Lake Assal AsaI to obtain the theta tax ta on salt exported The natives re replied replied plied that they th y had no money but pled would give cattle catte To this the chief cief of the expedition agreed age d Thereupon a large large number of natives entered the camp of f the expedition on various pre pretext pretext text and massacred the disarmed members member during urn bivouac A second expedition was wa sent to o as assist assist Slat or avenge the te first frt but it Is be I that this also met with a similar I II I I fate Not on Paris Pa Concession Concesion Paris Oct Oct 17 The officials of the Ethiopian railroad holders of the con concession concession concession cession from Emperor Menelik of Abys Abyssinia sinia sinla sini In the Lake Assal AsI district where according to the te Tribuna of f Rome an expedition of Europeans which went vent to Lake Le Assal AsaI to collect colet the salt sl tax t was recently wiped out toy by y the natives nate deny the accuracy of the te Tribunas ad advices advice advices vices vice The company company Is in daily daiy receipt of or dispatches from Has Ras and have had nothing to Indicate that there has ha been any trouble in the th region referred to by the Tribunas Tribunas correspondent The only explanation is that the difficulty may have arisen arien near another anoter Assal A situated south of in the te col colony colony colony ony of