GARIBALDI IN EXILE.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18911, 28 January 1927, Page 11

GARIBALDI IN EXILE.

• * DEPARTURE FOR LONDON

HOPES TO PROVE INNOCENCE.

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(Received January 27th, 7.25 p.m.)

PARIS, January 2G. Garibaldi, before departing for London, said: "I leave my heart in France, ai?d hope to return when my name is cleared. I am completely ruined and compelled to borrow my fare. I hope to secure the American visa in London which was denied me in Paris." [Ricciotti Garibaldi, a grandson of the Liberator, and Colonel Macia, were arrested at Perpignan in connexion with a plot to overthrow the present dictatorship in Spain. It was alleged that Garibaldi, posing as a Socialist, was acting as an "agent provocateur'' for the Italian police in their efforts to apprehend anti-Fascists.]

DETENTION ON ARRIVAL

A REMARKABLE STATEMENT

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(Received January 27th, 9.20 p.m.)

LONDON, January 27

By a strange irony of fate, two grandsons of tho famous Liberator whom England received with open arms, were detained all night at Folkestone while the immigration authorities were seeking instructions from the Home Oflieo as to whether they should be permitted to go to London. Following on their expulsion from France, Colonel Ricciotti Garibaldi and his brother Monetti intended to join the Aquitania at Cherbourg, but were refused a visa in Pans for America and so made a dash for England. They arrived at Folkestone from Boulogne by 6teamer, both imposing figures in fur coats, and Ricciotti with a martial bearing and a monocled eye. They obeyed the authorities' request to 6pend the night at an hotel pending a desision. Ricciotti told an interviewer that the head .of the family, General Pepino Garibaldi, at present in New York, had promised to meet him in Cuba. "I must tell him things while he must explain the meaning of some documents he holds," said Ricciotti. "Then I shall be able to clear my name throughout France. The police founa a few arms in my house, hence I am deported for complicity in the Catalan plot. It was absurd, but I could not disprove it. I had received money, but I could not stato in open court whence I received it, or to whom I paid it. 1 was obliged to maintain silence for the sake of people in high places. I hope the British Government will allow me to stay until a boat is sailing for Cuba." Monetti said that if his brother had disclosed ajl he knew it would have meant that hundreds of prominent people would have been imprisoned.