WILDLY CHEERED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 110, 11 May 1936, Page 7

WILDLY CHEERED

SELASSIE AND SUITE JERUSALEM RECEPTION ARAB STRIKERS PROVIDE CARS ROOM‘CLOSELY GUARDED [By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright! JERUSALEM, May 8. Haile Selassie is staying at the •King David Hotel. Three thousand people wildly cheered him as he and his suite drove from the strongly-guarded station in ten motor-cars provided by the Arab strike committee. A British sentry with rifle and bayonet guards the door of Haile Selassie’s room. The Emperor, who will give an audience to journalists to-morrow, retired early after receiving the Foreign .Minister and a delegation of priests. He drank ‘champagne with his meals aboard the H.M.S. Enterprise and spent two days with his treasurer counting his gold and silver. He has a large python as a pet. Quiet Disembarkation I ruder a triple escort, the British cruiser Enterprise entered Haifa Harbour at 8.30 a.m. No salute was fired. The Acting - District Commissioner boarded the cruiser and welcomed Selassie. Few words were spoken. Through a guard of honour of Royal Marinos and the North Lancashire Regiment, the Emperor and his family walked to a special train destined for Jerusalem. The crowds were silent. A strong personal bodyguard kept off a band of journalists, many of whom arrived by air in the hope of inducing the Emperor to break his silence. A large sum has been offered the Emperor t.o broadcast to America to-night. A hundred steel boxes which are believed to contain the Emperor’s fortune were unloaded from t’.e Enterprise. SELASSIE STILL HOPEFUL Received Mav l'>, 9.5 p.m. JERUSALEM, May 9. Haile Selassie visited the Holy Sepulchre and subsequently changed his room for one overlooking the roadway. He watches the traffic with field glasses. Selassie told the press: “I cannot believe that the League will not seek reparation on behalf of a weak nation against a stronger, condemned as the aggressor.” EMPEROR’S FORTUNE MILLIONS IN BANKS GOLD EBOM ADDIS ABABA Received May 10, 9.20 p.m. LONDON, May 9. The Herald's Jerusalem correspondent says that thin-faced, worn and greying, the Emperor is resting at the hotel David guarded by a solitary British sentry. Selassie’s secretary confirms that the Emperor has deposited between £4,000,000 and £5,000,00-0 in London banks, while the Empress’ own fortune is divided between banks in Paris, Cairo- ami Jerusalem. The Emperor, in addition, brought £1,500.000 in gold, leaving his silver in Addis Ababa for the soldiers.