The Archive · 1936

Negus Asked to Leave

Paris, July 5.

"M, Georges Motto, Chief of the Swiss Political Department, to-day bluntly intimated to Emperor Haile Selassie that he must leave Geneva within 24 hours after the current session of the League Assembly is ad-Journed," Mme. Genevieve Tabouis cabled yesterday from Geneva to. 'L@uvre." "L'Echo de Paris" prints the same report in a cable from "Pertinax" in. Geneva, The reported step of M. Motto is believed fo come as a sequel to the original stipulation of the Swiss Government. in regard to the Negus! visit, which stated the Emperor must eave after the Assembly adjourns he i the enemy of a country bordering Switzerland—Havas, May Return to Ethiopia London, July 3, Mr, and Mrs, J. A. Mollison, the Jong-distance and trans-oceanic tiers, were reported to-day to have volunteered to fly Emperor Haile Selassie to the Anglo-Exyptian Suda The "Dally Herald" said that the Negus would proceed from the Sudan to southwestern Ethiopia when he was ready to resume warfare against the Italians.

Mr, Mollison said, "Both the Emperor and the Ethiopian Legation are Snxfous that T should fly the Negus to Africa, However, the matter is indefinite, pending further discussion with the Legation."—United Press.

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