ABYSSINIA

Hokitika Guardian, 9 May 1936, Page 5

ABYSSINIA

THE EMPEROR

ARRIVAL AT HAIFA.

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(Reccicved this day jit 11. a * m o v : ; Haifa, May s.

Under a triple escort, H.Ai.S. Enterprise entered the harbour without salute. The acting district Commissioner boarded ann welcomed, lEmperoi Selassie., Few words were, spoken, mostly greeting nods. Though a guard of, honour of Royal Marines and North ■Lancashire Regi- - inent, the Emperor and his, family walked to a special train destined for Jeruslem . : , c,

The crowd was silent, A strong per-sonal-bodyguard kept off a band M journalists, many of whom -■ had arrived by, air,, in thd hope of inducing the Emperor to’break his silence. A large sum was offered the Einperor to broadcast to. America to-night via Palestine radio. V

MINISTER’S STATEMENT

LONDON, May 8

The Ethiopian Minister, in London, in a statement,. said that a- small group of;[■ Ethiopian Ministers were carrying ',on government in West Abyssinia, and that they hold the archives; removed- from Addis- Ababa. He said the Italians still do not occupy three r fifths of .Abyssinia, where there were tens of thousands of armed men. He alsb said : - The Italian conquest of AbyssinrV will place the Sudan between nutcrackers,. Libya and Abysr Kihia. Signor. Mussojini .was ■ already fortifying' -T)uhjeira Island, opposite Perim, commanding the 'Red Sea route to India' and Australia. There was still time for the League to act, as rains world’ make the Italian' task of subjugating the, bulk, of - Abyssinia before September impossible. ’ .