Ex-Emperor Living in Obscurity
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SELLASSIE'S PLIGHT t Compelled to Take a Smaller House FINANCES DISAPPEARING
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(Received 9, 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 8. Because its running costs are top high, Haile Sellassie, Emperor of Abyasinia, who was deposed by the Italian invasiou, wishes to sell his house at Bath, after whieh he will rent a very small house in the centre of Bath. The Daily Telegraph understands thal Sellassie cannot be .persuaded to lceep sufficient funds for his own use and fo* the household expenses. Most of thf
proceeds from the sale of valuablea and bullion he brought from Abyssinia are sent to help Abyssinian refugees in Palestine and British Somaliland. Much of the.gold plate'also has vanished from the strongroom. Sellassie is also geni erous to loqal charities. His family How walks about Bath almost unnoticed. The wound in Sellassie 's ann from Italian mustard gas has not yet properly healed. The guests at Sellassie 's household still include Ras Desta's wife and fou* children.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 39, 9 November 1937, Page 4
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