BROTHERS’ FATE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 28 January 1927, Page 5

BROTHERS’ FATE

EXPELLED FROM FRANCE.

GARIBALDI IN ENGLAND STRANGE IRONY OF FATE. BY CaBLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION—t.'H YBIGHT. LONDON, Jau. 27. By a strange irony oi fate two grandsons of the famous liberator »viiom England received with ‘ open arms, were detained all night at Folkestone whii© tlie immigration authorities were seeking instructions from the Home Office whether they shall be permitted to go to London. hollowing on the French expulsion order Colonel Ricciotti Garibaldi and his brother Monetti intended to join the Aquitania at Cherbourg, but were refused a visa in Paris lor America, so they made a dash lor England. Tney. arrived at Folkestone from Boulogne by .steamer, both imposing figures in fur coats. Ricciotti with martial bearing and monocle, obeyed the authorities’ request to spend the night at a hotel pending a decision. He told an interviewer that the head of the family, General Pepino GariBaldi, at present in New York, promised to meet him in Cuba. “I must tell him things, while he must explain the meaning of some documents he holds; then 1 shall be able to clear my name through France,” he said. “The police found a few arms in my house; hence I am deported for complicity in the Catalan plot. It is absurd, but I could not disprove it. I had received money, but 1 could not state in open court whence I received it or to whom I paid it. I was obliged to maintain silence for the sake of people in high places. I hope the British Government will allow me to stay until the boat is sailing for Cuba.”

Monetti said if his brother had disclosed all he knew it would have meant that hundreds of prominent people would have been imprisoned. PARIS, Jan. 26.

Garibaldi, before he departed for London, said: “1 leave my heart in France and hope to return when my name is cleared. I am completely ruined and compelled to borrow my fare. I hope to secure an American visa in London, which was denied me in Paris.” PERMITTED TO REMAIN IN ENGLAND. Received 11 a.m. to-day. LONDON, Jan. 27. . The Home Office permitted Garibaldi to remain in England prior to going to Cuba.