RAS IMRU IN EXILE
SENT TO ITALIAN ISLAND (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) ROME, 13th January. Ras Imru arrived at Naples from Abyssinia and leaves by a destroyer to-morrow for the political prison on the island of Ponza, where he will spend at least the first period of his exile.
A cablegram message from Rome, dated 7th inst, stated: Ras Imru, one of the most devoted of Haile Selassie’s adherents and a bitter attacker of the Italians after the Emperor’s flight, who was captured in West Abyssinia, is likely to be imprisoned in one of the Italian penal islands. He is on the way to Italy from Addis Ababa at the express command of Signor Mussolini.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 14 January 1937, Page 5
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