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LONDON WELCOMES THE EMPEROR OF ABYSSINIA

Cheering Crowds At Station And Legation

DAUGHTER'S THANKS FOR SYMPATHY IN SPEECH .FROM BALCONY

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, June 14. [As the Emperor of Abyssinia was travelling incognito there was no official ceremony when he landed at Southampton yes- terday from the Orient liner Orford, but he was cheered by a waiting crowd as with the Crown Prince and another son, and.. his daughter Princess Tsahal. and Ras Kassa, one of his gene rals, he boarded the train for London.]

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Fleet Street. ing a brown cloak over a white Thousands of people who would sult, have Uked to welcome the Ein- As they were presented the men peror of Abyssinia on his arrival bowed low and the women curt- In London to-day were, of course, sled. Professor Stanley Jevons at work when the boat-train that read the address from the Abys brought him from Southampton | stnis Association, and the came into Waterloo Station just peror made a speech in response before five o'clock; but two hours thanking his friends for their earlier the police were moving welcome and indicating that he back the crowds who had gathered was going to put his case before in the station and who kept stead-the people of Europe at Geneva. fastly to their front rows, while One of those standing neat him the pressure behind them steadily said afterwards that he spoke in Increased till the crowd was ten soft voice, but with energy and deep. It became, so large that re-determination. Inforcements of police were called up to deal with it,

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INQUEST ON SHIP'S OFFICER

Mr. H. C. Myler

LAMMERTS AUCTIONS

PUBLIC AUCTION.

Injured Either By THE Undersigned have received

Fall Or Blow

DIED BEFORE. ARRIVAL OF MEDICAL

AID

Shanghai, June 17.

An adjournment to allow the evidence of Dr. C. Y. Wu, of the National Quarantine Service, to be taken, was granted by Mr. C. H. Haines, M. Coroner. yesterday. when the inquest on Henry Carla brick Myler, second engineer on the,

De 5.5. Kanchow, was resumed. ceased died after having been found lying on the floor of his cabin in a critical condition on the night of June 11-12.

Dr. S. K Squires said that- on June 12 he made an examinatio0 of the body, and found that death was due to injury of the spinal cord in the region of the nape of the neck, and also to external haemorrhage. The haemorrhage came from a cut on the skull, this being

feath.

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Th Coroner: What do you think was the cause of the injury-The injury was due ether to falling or receiving a blow on the back of the head. There were two separate The royal party and the Minis-injuries. one on the nape of the ter and officials of the Legation neck, which caused bruising, and then drove away through cheering

another on the head, which caused the cut.

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Bright-red banners were upheld br the Friends of Abyssinia crowds. organisation. and people were wearing armlets ΟΙ enamelled badges in the Abyssinlän colours or waving small Abyssinian flags. Many coloured people were in the crowd, including a stalwart man who said he came from Abyssinia's nearest neighbour, Kenya, and who Was tobed Lit blue

When at last the Emperor drove silk. -Prince Monolulu." the racing away from Waterloo Station some

fall a considerable distance to pro- THE VICTORIAN. tipater, appeared in his most gor- of the crowd broke through the duce such an injury.

tried to sur- geous dress and loftiest coloured police cordon and

car, but it drove "an If the injuries were not caused by plumes with a Union Jack and round the an Ethiopian flag in either hand. swiftly, the Emperor waving his such a tall, what could they have Meantime the crowds were mas- hat in acknowledgment of the been caused by?A blow on the sing along the station approach cheers. There were more crowds back of the neck with a blunt in- and gathering twenty deep

Gate. at Prince's.

Kensington, strument. This might have been either side of York. Road. Only and when the Emperor arrived a soft instrument, like a sandbag. Deople with permits were allowed the balconies of the houses ad-

NOT NECESSARILY FATAL to stand behind the barrier part joining the Abyssinian Legation

down No. 11 platform, at and the house where the Emperor Witness stated that deceased had way Which the train

arrive. wil

he remains stay while was to

in a stone in the right kidney, and They had a good wew of those London were Alled with his future that might have caused excruciat- who came to welcome the Emperor. neighbours and their servants an-ing pain, which might have made a group Including Mr. O. C. Har-xlous to give him a cordial wel-him unable to move. There was vey. private secretary to Mr. come to his new home.

nothing else that would account for Anthony Eden; Lord and

In response to the cheera the his sudden loss of consciousness. Allen of Hurtwood, Sir Norman Emperor stepped on the balcony The damage to the spinal cord was. Angell. Mr. Vyvyan Adams, M.P..or the Legation and his daughter not of such a nature that it was Miss Eleanor Rathtone, MP. Sir addressing the crowd, sald. "Be-necessarily fatal, but the question Walter and Lady Layton. Profes- cause you have received us so of recovery from an injury of this sor Stanley Jevons (honorary secre-indly. It gives us great courage kind was so problematical that it tary of the Abyssinian Associa-] for what we have come for."

was almost impossible to say whe- tion), and Misa Margery Per- Dr. Martin. the Abyssinianther deceased could have recovered Dame CommanderD.C.YO ham, the student of the adminis- Minister, added "His Majesty has tration of mandates, Several wo- commanded me to tell you that could be done in a case such as wore waiting to present he is very grateful to you for your this. In order to stop the flow of

Thank you warm welcome. bouquets to the Emperor and the Princesses.

very much."

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Lady

AN INFORMAL WELCOME There was no red carpet on this platform, no festoons of flowers. no Cabinet Ministers, no guard of honqr, but there can seldom have been an occasion when the arrival of a foreign monarch so stirred the hearts And the imagination of London or when so much pain was

A HAILE SELASSIE

PARALLEL

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or not. There was very little that

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"London, June 14. The King has signified his inten tion to alter the Statutes of the Royal Victorian Order in order to permit of the admission of ladies to the Order

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Knight Grand Cross, Dame Grand Cross-G.C.V.O.

II. Knight Commander-K.C.

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III. Commander-C.V.O,

IV. Member of the Fourth Class ---M.V.O.

V. Member of the Fifth Class- M.V.O.

The description of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Classes of the Order will be identical for "both ladice and gentlemen.

blood from the head, something more than ordinary, first aid mea- sures would have, been required. If a doctor had been present, he could immediately have checked it. Mr. Douglas McCormick, third London, June 14. engineer on the as. Kunchow, şaid' There is a curious parallel to that about 10 o'clock on the night of the occurrence, he went into Haile Selassie's visit to Europe,

In 1900, Britain having occupi- deceased's room to see how he felt. ed Pretoria, Paul Kruger, Pre Deceased had been ill during the felt by those who greeted him per-sident of the South African Be day, but said he was not feeling Christian or first names.

public, set out for Europe to on-

sonally.

When the train slid quitely into list sympathy for the Boer cause too bad. Deceased asked him to while his countrymen carried on a help him down on to a chair, as be Witness guarilla warfare,

was lying on his bunk.

His Majesty has also bean pleased to command that ladies appointed to the First and Second Classes af the Order shall be entitled to use the style of "Dame" before their

the station, to the sound of cheers from the now dense crowds beyond the platform, one saw the Crown He was conveyed on a Dutch complied, then left him and went police arrived in a launch, put the Prince of Abyssinia--who had maa-of-war. In the Suez Canal he into his own cabin. Half a mini deceased on board, and were just been welcomed with such hon-was saluted by every ship Except ute afterwards, he heard a fall and leaving when the port doctor's

саме alongside. British ships. our and formality four years ago

a shout, and went back into de-launch

came alongalde. Do-landing at Marseilles he was ceased's cabin, to find him lying doctor's launch --looking out eagerly from the

acclaimed by an immense crowd.

the midstream, and pronounced the

window beside him, and then the He made a speech, The speech, too, on the floor, facing across the The doctor examined the body in almost expressionless face of a was a remarkable" parallel to that room, with its head below man sitting a little beyond him. of Haile Selassie in London yes radiator. Deceased was lying on man dead.

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times. He later stated that the porthole door had hit him on the

While witness was, watching over hardly glancing at the group on terday: "The war in South Africa his back, unconscious, and there the platform-a man olive-com- has exceeded the limits of bar was a pool of blood below his head. the deceased, be asked him what. plexioned, bearded, lustrous-eyed, barism. I bave fought against Witness summoned the Chief Om-had happened, and he replied that who might have posed for the many barbarous Kaffir tribes in cer and together they lifted the in- the engines had hit him over the picture of an apostle, rather than the course of my life, but they are jured man and put him on a chair. head, repeating this three or four a ruler, the head of a Church not so barbarous as the English rather than the head of an army, who have burnt our faras and dri- They then called the Becond om When two or three people had ven our women and children into cer, who tried to stop the bleeding,

but without success, entered, his coach one expected to destitution." see him emerge, but they came out and went back again, and still nothing happened Minutes pas

THE FINGER OF HISTORY From Marseilles Kruger went to. Paris, where, escorted by a com-

NEARLY DEAD The Chief Oreer took a boat and pany of cuirassiers, he was received went over to another of the com

pany's ships to retch a motor

ed. Then the police formed by President Loubet,

head:

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The Coroner: Did the deceased.

the ever have any trouble with crew?-None at afl

Did he, to your knowledge, have

any.

ling leading to a gate at the There was no League of Nations isunch, and they tried to put they enemies -I did not know of

Mr. Richard Firkius, Becond Om-

side of the

platform, The then, but the vast crowd shrieked deceased on the motor launch In

volumia-Long live Kruger. Arbitration Emperor, wearing a

the meanwhile, witness had been Dus black cloak over his dark for over." blue suit, came out and, followed From Paris Kruger set out on keeping watch over the, injured cer on the Kanchow, gave evidence by his party, walked quickly al-his European travels and was re-man, and at 4 a.m. he handed over similar to that of the previous wil most to the gate, Then he paused, erived everywhere with emotional to the Second Officer. He after-ness, as far as the circumstances or turned back and stood for a while, enthusiasm. There was one coun-wards heard a yell and the sound the death were concerned. He fet- first to allow people to be present try which he did not visit--Italy, of a fall, and. going back into de- ched the motor launch weat ceased's cabin, he found him lying ashore, and telephoned for assis ed to him and then to laten while Britain's only friend in Europe.

The enthusiasm on evaporated face downwards on the floor. The tance. Deceased had no trouble addresses of welcome were read and in 1909 Kruger, a broken and to him. The Crown Prince and disillusioned old man, died in a Princess Tanal stood near him illa at Clarens on the edge of Lake and the stalwart Ros Kaasa, wear-Geneva.

Second Officer Mited him on to the settee and by that time he was nearly dead. Soon afterwards, the

with the crew, and had no enemies, The Inquest was adjourned, untit next Friday, at 11 am.(N.C.D.N.).