EMPEROR MENELIK.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13892, 24 December 1913, Page 5

EMPEROR MENELIK.

DEATH. OFFICIALLY

ANNOUNCED

Adis Abebs, Dec. 22. ft is officially ;umonn<-^d that the Em|>eior Menelik is dead. It has been .so often reported that Mrne'iik 11., Emperor «f Abyssinia, whs dead, that littln importance has hitherto been attached to such news. Tt.e Emperor lived in such secrecy, that very littlo authentic information concerning his health has become public Menelik was Tiot-ii in 1842, anx. Nucceeded Johannes It in 1889. In ISS9 he nominated Lii Yasu,«lS ueokew.' as his ."I 101} Menelik's <teath wns.:. reported last year, it was stated that Lij Ynsivs succession to the throne would probably result in war.