Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 November 1937 — Page 29

FRIDAY, NOV. 12, 1937

Hailes Fortune Exhausted

kingdom but his personal fortune him, it is now revealed.

‘King ot Seeks to Regain

LONDON. Nov. 12 (NEA).—Haile Selassie the First, King of Kings of Ethiopia, Conquering Lion of Judah —a frail little shadow king, thin and dark—has permitted his friends in England to reveal that his supposed treasure box. transplanted from Ethiopia. is empty. He stands out as the most notable victim of the League of Nations and the big powers which control and sway it Encouraged bv the League to resist the war of | aggression waged upon his country by Italy, he has lost everything save honor. All his once-proud titles today sound derisively: “King of Kings of Ethiopia”—with himself in exile | and all the Ethiopian chieftains, who acknowledged his rule, either killed by the Italians or forced by | them into submission. “Conquering | Lion of Judah’—with his armies | wiped out, his capital and country | in the hands of the enemy. |

Lives Modestly

Today he lives far from his native land. in the old watering place of , Bath, simply, madestly as befits one | bereft. of fortune. At the time he * left his country, much was made | in the reports concerning the vast | treasure he was supposed to have | carried off with him. 1

What it really amounted to was a t

few boxes of silver coins and a box or two of silver plate—his own pos- | sessions. They long ago have been | spent to maintain his family, to] send his representatives to Geneva | to the League of Nations Assembly | and in fees for lawyers looking | after his interests. > | In the desperate attempt to help | himself, the poor little Emperor | has been blocked at every turn. He | sat down to write his memoirs. There was a London publisher will- | ing to issue the book. There was |

A ‘relief’

Kings,

Haile Selassie. looking quite dapper in London, lost not only his

when Italy wrested Ethiopia from ' fund may be raised to aid him,

Tragic Figure, | His Lost Stocks

in England and elsewhere a symvathetic audience ready to buy it But when he had completed it, he was doomed to disappointment. The manuscript was sent back to him. Inexperienced in the art of book-making, Haile Selassie had | spent too much time narrating far | distant events and had given all too little space to the tragic war with Italv—the inside story, as only he could reveal it. Seek Aid in Courts

Then he turned to the French courts to establish his rights to big blocks of stock in the French- | controlled Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway, the only line leading from | the Red Sea to the capital of |

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| Ethiopia. In the same courts he sought to establish his rights to stock in the Franco-Abyssinian Salt | co. Had he been successful, he | could have sold these shares and | gotten much-needed financial re- | lief. The French courts are still | pondering. | ©" Next he turned to the English | courts and filed suit against the | cable & Wireless Co. for $50,000 he | claimed was due him under an | agreement regarding wireless service | between Addis Ababa and England. | The company did not deny that the | money was due to somebody, but | questioned whether Haile Selassie | was that somebody. This was so because Italy claimed the money. Fear Counter Suit His attorney made great play of the fact that he was still recognized as Emperor of Ethiopia by the British Government. The wireless people said the trouble was that

as the King of Italy now claimed to be the Emperor of Ethiopia, he might sue the ‘company for the money, claiming Haile Selassie had no right to it. The English court 1s slumbering over the point, So straitened have the circumstances of Haile Selassie now become, that, as soon as they think the moment propitious, the Abyssinia Association of Great Britain is going to issue an appeal for a relief fund for him. This association has among its directors a num-

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