HAILE SELASSIE
PLEA UPHELD BY COURT OF APPEAL CLAIM AGAINST CABLES AND WIRELESS LONDON, June 30. The Court of Appeal has allowed with costs the appeal of Haile Selassie, Emperor of Abyssinia, against the dismissal of his claim against Cables and Wireless Ltd. The Master of the Rolls, in giving judgment, said that' there was no rule in law depriving the Emperor of the right to make the claim. The action did not seek to bring the King of Italy before the courts, and the fact that Italy had also claimed the money did not affect the position.
In the Chancellery Court in London in March Haile Selassie demanded £10,613 from Cables and Wireless Ltd., allegedly due under an agreement which the company contends applies to whoever is the sovereign in Ethiopia. A reply from the Foreign Office on the question which was read out stated that Britain recognised the Italian Government as the Government, de facto, of virtually the whole of Ethiopia.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 July 1938, Page 8
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163HAILE SELASSIE Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 July 1938, Page 8
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