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Eden said the Negus had made II
clear that he wished to proceed with
bis family to Palestine.
Eden added: THE Emperor natu-
rally will be expected while in Pales-
tine not to participate in any way in
the furtherance of the hostilities."
The foreign secretary said Sir Sidney
the Emperor had renounced the direc.
tion of affairs, which he had turned
over to his council of ministers.
Eden said he had no more in
formation when asked to state
whether the Emperor had abdicated
or not and who now represents the
ethiopian government and country"
, LITTLE HOPE FOR RETURN,
BY the Associated Press.
DJIBOUTI, French Somaliland,
May 4.-Haile Selassie I, fugitive
Emperor of Ethiopia, was represented
here today as having little hope of re-
turning to rule over his defeated en-
pire.
{ After his hurried fight from Adds
Ababa, while the northern italian
army advanced on the capital and
Just before native rioting and looting
broke out, the Emperor and his family
were guests in the palace. of the
french governor-g general.
While the future status of the
Emperor in relation to his govern
faent remained uncertain, informed
sources pointed out that he had
pot abdicated formally and was still
nominally monarch of Ethiopia.
When he fled from his capital early
Saturday, he turned the government
ever to his ministers.
The Emperor himself blamed his
plight and that of his kingdom on
betrayal of his own warriors, rather
than on the military power of the
Italian armies.
In Emperor's Party.
The King of Kings arrived here
yesterday, accompanied by Empress
Mennen, little Prince Makonnen and
the two imperial princesses. Ras
Kassa and Foreign Minister Bellaten
Gueta Herouy also were In the party.
An informed source said Halle
Selassie left his son, Crown Prince
Asia Wosan, in Adds Ababa to await
the arrival of Marshal Pietro Badoglio
and to surrender to the Fascist COM
mander in chief.
There were rumors that the En-
peror would abdicate in favor of the
Crown Prince and that Asia Wosan
would become Emperor under Italian
domination.
The Italians have indicated, how
ever, that they might place Prince
Menelik, grandson of the late EN-
peror Lidj Yassu, on the throne. Lidj
Yassu was dethroned by the late
Empress Zaudita and Halle Selassie.
Considerable interest was aroused
by hurried visit the French governor
general paid last night to the home
OF Prince Menelik, who lives at Ia
jura, a few miles from here. There
was no intimation as to the purpose
Of the visit.
Selassie Charges Plot.
Halle Selassie himself declined to
make any public statement, but his
French host said the reason for the
E1nperor's flight was that some of his
own people plotted against him.
The reverses suffered by the Ethio-
plans on the northern front and the
Italian march on Adds Ababa were
the result of an uprising of the Gala
tribes in Yego and Wollo Provinces,
the Emperor was quoted as saying.
He hoped to be able to halt the
Fascist advance along the imperial
highway from Dessye, but found his
loyal troops without food or supplies
and suffering from the arduous cam
paign in Northern Tigre Province.
The Emperor studied the possibility
Of a last-ditch stand at the Tenaber
Mountain pass, and decided to return
to Adds Ababa to seek reinforce
ments for his northern army.
En- route to the capital, he was
fired on several times by hostile bands
OF his subjects Arriving finally in
Adds Ababa, he found the town
thronged with wounded warriors and
the families Of his slain followers.