CREDIT IN COMMONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 107, 7 May 1936, Page 9

CREDIT IN COMMONS

BRITISH LEGATION STAFF

(British Official Wlrdlcss.) • (Received May 7, 12120 p.m.)

RUGBY, May 6.

Speaking in the Foreign Affairs debate in the House of Commons this afternoon the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, said that the House would share the great satisfaction of the Government with the splendid work performed during a grave emergency by the British Legation guard of Indian infantry. The:se troops had saved a large number of foreign lives. In no single case was an appeal addressed to them in vain. Not only did they protect some 2QOO refugees of twenty-three different nationalities in the Legation compound itself, repelling at least one attack by' rioting tribesmen, but they were able to send detachments to foreign missions to help individuals threatened "by the mob. "I am confident that when the full story is known Major Chartaris and the officers and men under him will be found worthily to have upheld the highest traditions of the Indian Army," said Mr. Eden. The Belgian Ambassador in London called at the Foreign Office this morning to express on fcehalf of King Leopold and the Belgian Government and people appreciation of the services rendered by the British to the Belgian Legation in Abyssinia on Monday. ' ' WHY SELASSIE LEFT. The "Daily Teleguaph's" Jibuti correspondent says that Haile Selassie declared before his departure: "I have not deserted my people. It was not fear of continuing the war. I saw the impossibility of my unarmed brave warriors competing with modern weapons, especially gas, therefore I departed in order to avoia further bloodshed and the destruction of the Legations at Addis Ababa."