ARRIVAL AT JIBUTI

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 104, 4 May 1936, Page 10

ARRIVAL AT JIBUTI

SELASSIE & ENTOURAGE

RECEPTION BY THE FRENCH

FULL LIBERTY TO EMBARK

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LONDON, May 3. The Emperor, Haile Selassie, the Empress, and an entourage, including Ras Desta, Ras Kassa, and the Foreign Minister, Mr. Herouy, and his wife, are accommodated at the Governor's Palace at Jibuti. Contrary to earlier reports, they did not board the British destroyer, the Diana, which has no collection wilh the Emperor's flight. The Governor and his staff received the party in full dress uniform, with an. escort of Senegalese troops. The Empress, who was heavily veiled, was the first who left the train. She was followed by Haile Selassie wearing a white robe, bareheaded, and care-worn, with the Crown Prince. The troops saluted as the exiles entered waiting conveyances. The populace paid respectful greetings.

A French official declared: "His Majesty will be treated with the respect due Lo a monarch in distress, and will be allowed full liberty to I embark on any ship he wishes'." j Haile Selassie has not abdicated, but has handed over the Government to his Ministers. The Abyssinian Legation in London corroborates this. PEACE OFFER DECLINED. - Signor Virgini Gayda, the Italian publicist, says that before Haile Selassie departed he rejected a direct Italian offer to negotiate for peace, and adds: "His people have abandoned him and he has abandoned them." The Emperor's future movements, now that he is in French territory, depend partly on his own wishes and partly on the decision of France, which he is consulting, together with Britain. He is selling his house at Vevey, in Switzerland, but owns an excellent house at Prince's Gate, London, near the Ethiopian Legation. It was expected at Cairo that Haile Selassie would continue the struggle in western Shoa after sending the Empress to Jerusalem, but Sudanese reports state that bandit risings created havoc which extended to western Shoa from Gojjam Province, rendering a military campaign impossible. A Paris message says that Haila Selassie wanted to go on- fighting at, all costs, and that the, Empress encouraged him, but his advisers, preferring an end to the war, begged him to depart. "NO MAN IS MY BROTHER." . Mr. C. Martin, Abyssinian Minister in Great Britain, is anxiously awaiting news of his sons, Benjamin and Joseph, who joined Haile Selassie's forces. Inmates at the London Legation include Mr. Martin's other children and his grand-nephew, Abata Emanuel, whose father was killed in the war and whose mother and sister are at Addis Ababa. Abata is dressed in a European suit with an. Eton collar. When escorting a journalist to the secretary's room he was' asked whether. the other children were his brothers. "No man is my brother," was the startling reply.