WORN AND GREYING.
Maile Selassie Rests In Jerusalem.
H!S HUGE FORTUNE. Press Association —Copyright. London, May 9. Thin faced, worn and greying, the Emperor Haile Selassie is resting at the Hotel Javid, guarded by a solitary British senry, says the Jerusalem correspondent A the Daily Herald. His secretary confirms that the Emperor ras deposited between £4,000,000 and 35,000.000 in London banks. The Empress has her own fortune divided be,weon banks at Paris, Cairo and Jerualum. The Emperor in addition brought C 1,500,000 in gold, leaving the silver at \ddis Ababa for the soldiers. 1 One hundred steel boxes, believed to contain Haile Selassie’s fortune, were unloaded from the cruiser Enterprise. The Emperor drank champagne with bis meals aboard the Enterprise and :pent two days with his treasurer, countng his gold and silver. He has a large python as a pet. Haile Selassie visited the Holy Sepulchre and subsequently changed his room for one overlooking the roadway. He watches the traffic with field glasses. He told the Press: “I cannot believe the League of Nations will not seek reparaion on behalf of a weak nation against i stronger one which has been condemn.d as an aggressor.”
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 127, 11 May 1936, Page 5
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