BAN ON GARRIBALDI

Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1927, Page 1

BAN ON GARRIBALDI

AFTER EXPULSION FROM FRANCE.

[Australia & N.Z, Cable Association.]

LONDON, January 27

Ricciotti Garibaldi, who recently was tried in France over his connection with the Catalan plot for the overthrow of the present Spanish regime, along with his brother, landed at Folkestone. Ihe British immigration authorities, however, prevented him from going on to London. Ricciotti stayed the night at a local hotel. Ho says that he wants to go to Cuba. LONDON. January 27. By a strange irony of fate, two of the grandsons of the famous liberator ftarilmldi, whom England received with open arms, were detained all night at Folkestone, while the British immigration authorities were seeking instruc lions from the Home Office as to whether they shall be permitted to go to London. Following on a French expulsion order, Colonel Ricciotti Garibaldi, and his brother, Monetti Garibaldi, intended to join the Aquitanin at Cherbourg. but they were refused a visa la Paris for America, so they made a dash for England. They arrived at Folkestone from Boulogne by steamer. Both presented imposing figures m their fur coats. Colonel Ricciotti, with a martial hearing and motiocled. obeyed the authorities’ request to stay at a special night hotel, pending the decision.

He told an interviewer that the head of the family. General Pepino Garibaldi. is at present in New York, and had promised to meet him in Cuba. “T must tell him things, while he must explain the meaning of some documents which lie holds. Thou 1 shall ho able to clear my name throughout France. The police found a few arms at my house. Hence I am deported for complicity in the Catalan plot. It is absurd, hut 1 could not disprove it! 1 had received money, but I could not state in open court whence 1 received it, or to whom 1 paid it. 1 have been obliged to maintain silence for the sake of people ill high places. I hope thnl the British Government will allow mo to stay until a boat is sailing for Cuba.’’ M. Monetti Garibaldi said that if his brother had disclosed all that lie knew, it would have meant that hundreds of prominent people would have been imprisoned.

HIS DEPARTURE FROM FRANCE. PARIS, January 26. When Ricciotti Garibaldi was departing for Loudon, he said: “1 leave my heart in France. J hope to return when my name has been cleared. I am completely ruined. I am compelled to borrow my fare, f hope to secure an American visa in London, which has been denied me in Paris.” (Received this day at 10.15 a.mA LONDON. Jan. 27. The Home Office permitted GViribaldi to remain in England, prior to going to Cuba.