MAGNIFICENCE IN CAVE.
EMPEROR’S TEMPORARY QUARTERS. LONDON, April 19. The Sun-Herald Agency says that the cave which the Emperor Haile Selassie occupied as his headquarters at Quorum was fitted out with a thoroughness and magnificence suggesting the expectation of long occupation. It included a most complicated underground system of passages, steps, and caverns, rendering it impervious ■ to air attacks, and it was surrounded by machine-gun emplacements. The cave was stocked with hundreds of cases of munitions, gas-masks, machine-guns, rifles, wireless sets and hospital equipment, together with cases of champagne, claret, port, whisky and brandy, many boxes of eau de cologne, crates of the choicest provisions, stoves, sewing machines, armchairs, sofas, beds and a bath. The walls were covered with tapestries, and the floors with sumptuous carpets. Evidence that thei'e had been women occupants was provided by the discovery of Tashionable dresses and underclothes and the moii exclusive French powders and other cosmetics.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 119, 21 April 1936, Page 7
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152MAGNIFICENCE IN CAVE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 119, 21 April 1936, Page 7
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