A format protest war recorded Brits representative Coe Jing to a camp thirty kilometres distant. On December 8, a serious en-Jcounter in which the joint commission was not in any way concerned vicinity of the wells. Since then the Abyssinian Government had made an loffer to the Ttalian Government to submit the dispute to arbitration and they had now reported the matter to the League of Nations.
As the disputed ownership of these wells had given rise to local un~ rest, Sir John Simon had instructed the British representatives at Rome Jend Addis Ababa, prior to the above jmteldent, to recommend the destrability of early demarcation of the fronier. Before the news of the clash Jon December 5, the Italian Govern iment had informed the British Gov-Jernment of their willingness to allow [Col. Clifford and his Abyssinian colleague to enter the area of the wells land carry out their work.
"As" soon as the news of the clash Iwas received, instructions were immediately despatched to Col. Clifford to withdraw his section from the affected area, similar instructions being sent by the Emperor of Abyssinia to the Abyssinian Commission—Wireless through Reuter.
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