The Archive · 1937

ETHIOPIAN OFFICIAL IS DENIED KENYA ASYLUM SPECIAL TO THE "N.C..N.

Nairobi, Nov. 24.

Mr. Tekle Hawariate, formerly Abyssinian Minister in Paris, and later Abyssinia's spokesman in Geneva, was to-day refused permission to remain in Kenya beyond the expiry of his.present three-month permit.—Reuter.

Ching Road calamity e was returning from duty.

One employee of the Company was hurt under curious circumstances. Following the August 14 bombing ana the tightening up of food shop prices. the Chinese staff of the Company asked for an advance on their pay This was promised for August 18 but such was the extreme nervous tension of the men that they demanded the money a day earlier backed their witimatum by force, locking up number of foreign members of staff in the depot. The Secretary and Acting-Manager of the Company, Mr. A. Pollock, entered the depot and offered himself as a hostage for the detained men. He was in the midst of pointing out "that the Company had not once gone back on their word in 29 years when a trace bullet—a stray from an aerial duel—struck a Chinese standing five feet from Mr. Pollock. In the general rush for safety the demand was forgotten and the foreigners left the building. Next cay the men were satisfied

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