THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1937.
NIECE OF ZAHAROFF'S SECRET BRIDE CHARLIE KUNZ PIANO MEDLEYS
BREAKS 64 YEARS' SILENCE
LONDON WEDDING
DESCRIBED
Wife Who Became A Cook
From A Special Correspondent
TO-DAY I can give further details of the secret marriage
of Sir Basil Zaharoff, to an Englishwoman 64 years ago, under the assumed name of Prince Górtzacoff.
Mrs. Henrietta Greenslade, a B-street, Knightsbridge, suddenly niece of Emily Ann Burrows, Sirin the middle of the night for the Basil's secret bride, was a brides. Continent, because of the police. maid at the wedding.
She chh clearly remember the ceremony at the Church of All Saints, Ennismore-gardens, Knights bridge, on October 14, 1872.
Mrs. Greenstade, who London, is now 70.
lives in
"I lived with my nunt, Emily Ann! Burrows, who
WAR my mother's
aunt
ARREST
"As I was living in the care of my aunt, they had to take me with them.
"We went first of all to Antwerp, making the crossing in a boat called the Baronasy-or Rome name that,
Ike
went to
"From Antwerp Wo Brussels. The townspeople treated
sister, for about a year before the
us like royalty. "While there the police came and murringe," Mrs. Greenslade said.
told me her sweet- arrested him. heart's full name
"He Prince VAN
was luler brought to London Zacharias Basillas Zacharoff Gort- under an extradition treaty which had zaroff.
just been completed between England and Belgium.
LOVED DEEPLY "They wer very much In love with each other. My aunt was a very beautiful woman and he was tall, swarthy, and handaoine.
"I know that he appeared at the Old Bailey and was discharged,“
Mrs. Greenslade was able to throw fresti Bight on the man Hephistidez.
"He was a banker,” she said, "and my aunt always told me he was the
"The marriage was gone through. as quietly as possible, which is not surprising, as detectives were after who brought her husband up and tought tim to speak 50 many languages.
hlin.
"They had not been married thany days when they left their house in
"Sanders of the River Memorial”
Lagos, Jan. 10. A memoriai erected by native chiefs to the man who is said to have| inspired the late Edgar Wafluce with
"My aunt spent all her money bayside selling ber Hill-street house, furniture, and Jewels to provide monry for the defence. "Eventually they went to Cyprus to start a big store there.
"Mes, Gartzenff became ill and was sept home, and Gartzacoff told her to ake another house, which she did in North London.
He sen! her money. "After they had been married four or five years Gartzuen came home
the idea of “Senders of the River,” from Cyprus and did not like the way was unveiled at Ibodun, in the Yoru-in which my aunt was ilving, and they ba Country.
The man was Sir Robert L. Bower.! who as Captades Bower was appointed the first British Resident at badan in 1893, in the days when, slave trading and fetish worship were at their height in these part
separated.
"Nothing more was heard of him until about 12 years after their marriage, when they met in dramatic fashion,
"A friend of the Burrows family, who had just returned from America, told a story of how Gertzucoff had
The monument, a lower of con- crete blocks 65ft, high, in the centre! 'married' an American heiress worth
of the town, was unveiled by Sir|about £40,000. Robert's
Blower, M.P
FACE TO FACE
Commander n. 7. "News come that Gorizacoff and who was accompanied the woman were arriving on a boat by his sister, Miss Constance Bower. from America.
The monument has a copper plate bearing the inscription: "Captain R. "My aunt and her brother went to 1., Bawer, first Resident of Ibadan, 1893-1887, was a fine character, won the universal and lasting esteem of the Yorubas, and firmly established the loyalty of the people to the Ini- Derinl Crown. This was a
man"
Sir Robert Bower was six feet tall and physically quite unlike the char- acter drawn by Mr. Wallies, but he dealt with recalcitrant native chiefs with п coolness and decision which won their admiration, and, the "time of Bower" is still remembered as an epoch in native annals.
HE BANNED
CONFETTI: Notice Is Torn Down The vicar of St. Peter's, Walgrave (Northants), the Rev. A. T. Segger, banned the throwing of confetti in the precincts of his church. A nôtice board
was put up to that effect. The
board was torn down after a wedding at which the vicar officiated. Subsequently, nt Northampton Court he summoned Dorothy Ponton, aged twenty-five, of Gladstone House, Walgrave, and Minnie Atkins, nged fifty-five, of The Bungalows,
Wal- grave, accusing them of damaging the board.
meet the boat and came face to face with the pair as they came down the gangway.
There
a terrible scene. Gorizaeoff tried to pretend that he had never seen my aunt before.
"The immigration authorities re- fused, however, to let the American woman land, und she was sent back on the same boat.
"Gorizacoff slipped away from the quayside and neither my anyone in our family ever heard from him again.
aunt nor
saw or
"My aunt had a bitter quarrel with | ber father, John Burrows, who was a builder and sawmill proprietor Bristol, over the marriage.
of
"When he died in 1877 she was disinherited and left penniless. "She eventually had to go out as a cook to earn her living.
"She died in London about 40 years
age as the result of an accident, when she was badly burned by cooking fat, "I am certain she had no children."
Bombproof Bed Berlin, Jan. 1. A patent for "a bomb- proof four-poster bed" ger, were unable to identify who had has been registered at done the damage, and the mucis- the Reich Patent Office.
Two witnesses, called by Mr. Seg-
irales dismissed the case.
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Firemen fought for hours to save homes at Farley, Surrey, set ablaze when Dutch air liner crash-
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of telephone wires and plunged into two others.
Timbuktu, Legendary City,
Is Disappearing
SAHARA SANDS SWALLOWING
IT UP
From PATRICK BALFOUR, (who is travelling in Africa) GAO, French West Africa, TIMBUKTU, ramate city of the T
Sahara, which has for so long had an almost legendary reputation, will soon be entirely a legend,
ing the city.
The development of steamship trade, the abolition of slavery, the gradual opening-up of Africa from the coast, slowly killed the great de- sert trade routes and the Tuareg's means of livelihood.
its course, leaving it high and dry five miles away in the desert.
ALWAYS SOUTHWARDS And the desert sands relentlessly move southwards, drying up water- courses, or driving them under- ground, demolishing and burying native vilinges on its way.
Once the Sabara was a rich net- work of rivers. In the barren moun- tains of the Hoggar recent excava- lions have revealed the remains of canoes and the skulls of hippopotami.
When the dried-up lake of Qutala,
west of Timbuktu is flooded in the rainy season, crocodiles come to the surface. They still survive in the He came into contact with the underground rivers below the desert, coastal peoples, who began to absorb from the days when the Niger, be- The desert sands are relentlessly him.
fore it changed its course, made encroaching on it, smothering its streets of low, flat-roofed houses. The Tuareg were splendid fighters. Oulato a rich country.
Herodotus sailed with case up the The population is gradually evacuat-But in time the French, as their
armies penetrated further and fur-Nile to the Congo. Only Afty years ther into the desert, overcame their ago General Marchand, cutting his In fifty years' time Timbuktu may, flerce
their
reached opposition. To-day
the Sudan, through way no longer exist.
fighting spirit Б crushed. The Fashoda, on the Nile, by tributeries is ns free from bandits ng which have now disappeared. To- day you can ride down their sandy beds on horseback. Only in the great mountain ranges In another two hundred of the desert, where travellers rarely even less, the Sahara, In Its move Scots-penetrate, do the pure-bred Tuaregsouthward, may have reached the survive. And there, no longer tropical forest, smothering on g active, they are slowly dying of con- way the savannah-bush country of
the French Sudan.
Sahara
. Once It was the chief city of the 'southern Snbare,
the terminus on Scotland. the Niger of the great desert trade route from the Mediterranean.
Such it was when Laing, a man, discovered it in 1926.
years,
Only Intensive Irrigation and The secret of their ancestry may tree-planting, at huge expense, can die with them.
For centuries the raiders of the sumption. desert trade had been the Tuareg, the veiled people, kings of the Sahara, tall, slim and fair, whose origin still remains a mystery.
ONLY 2,000 LEFT
Now no more than two thousand purebred Tuaregs survive.
The few who remain in Timbuktu | have become crossed with the Araba, Senegalèse and the Negroes of tho south.
Only a small French military post is stationed at Timbuktu.” Only an occasional English traveller usks how to get there-to the surprise of the French authorities, for whom it is no longer of interest,
[stop it
DIVORCE AND £3,000
Hollywood, Jan. 1. Miss Lola Lane, (wenty-six-year- old flm actress ex-wife of Mr. Lew Even the Niger is forsaking it. Ayres, has obtained a divorce, from Once the city stood on the river's Mr. Alexander (A.) Hall, the direc- banks. Now the river hos changed tor, plus £3,000.--Reuter.
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