TREATY WITH ETHIOPIA
EMPEROR MOVES TO END IT Rec. 11 a.m. RUGBY, June 14.
The notice of the termination of the Anglo-Abyssinian Agreement ana Military Convention of 1941, which is provided for in Article 12 of the agreement, was given by the Emperor to the British Charge d'Affaires on May 25.
The Foreign Secretary, giving this information to the House of Commons, added that in these circumstances it had been necessary for the Government to review the position, and it was doing so with the assistance of the British Minister, Mr. H. G. Howe, who had already reached England for consultations.—B.O.W.
The treaty provides that,'the British diplomatic representative ' shall take precedence over any other, that British advisers shall assist the Emperor, that British financial aid shall be extended to the Emperor, that the High Court may be used by foreigners, involved in litigation, and that British Judges shall sit on the Court; that the Emperor shall enact laws against trading with the enemy in accordance with British proposals; that the Emperor shall not conduct any external military operation which might be contrary to the interests of Britain; and that: there shall-be free passage for British aircraft and use of ground facilities, but no foreign aircraft may fly over Ethiopian territory without British consent. The military convention provides. for British aid in raising, organising, and training an Ethiopian army, the maintenance of a British police force, and the granting of special facilities to British soldiers.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 140, 15 June 1944, Page 5
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