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THE

HONGKONG

FRIDAY, TELEGRAPH.

JANUARY 15,

1987.

NIECE OF ZAHAROFF'S SECRET BRIDE CHARLIE KUNZ PIANO MEDLEYS

BREAKS 64

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 Gortzacoff.

Mrs. Henrietta Greenslade, a Hi-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. mald at the wedding.

ARREST

the "As I was living in the care of my aunt, they had to take me with them.

She can clearly remember ceremony at the Church of All Saints, Ennlamore-gardens, Knights- bridge, on October 14, 1872.

who lives in Mrs. Greenslade, London, is now 76.

"I lived with my nunt, Emily Ann Burrows

who

WOя my mother's

for about a year before the marriage," Mrs. Greenstade said.

told to her "My Buni

sweet- heart's futi name Was Prince

"We went first of all to Antwerp, making the crossing in a boat called the Baronasy-or Rome name like that.

"From Antwerp IVO went Lo Brussels. The townspeople treated!

ske royalty.

While there the police came and arrested him.

"He was later brought to London

Zacharlas Basilius Zacharoff Gort-under an extradition treaty which had just been completed between England and Belgium.

zacoff,

LOVED DEEPLY

"They were very much

with

ench other. My aunt

In love шая д

"I know that he appeared at the Old Balley and was discharged."

Mrs. Greenslade was able to throw

very beautiful woman and he was fresh light on the man Hephistidez. tall, swarthy, and handsome.

"The marriage was gone through

"He was a banker," she said, "and

ng quietly as possible, which is put my aunt always told me he was the surprising, its detectives were afterman who brought her husband up and tough! him 10 speak 50 muny him.

languages.

"They had not been married many days when they left their house in

"Sanders of the River Memorial”

"My aunt spent all her money bilden selling her Jill-street house, furniture, and Jewels to

money for the defence.

they went to Cyprus to i

start a big store there.

Mrs.

Gortzucoff became it and was sent

home, and Gortz coff told her to

Gorzich take another house, which she did in North London. He sent her money.

"After they had been married four or five years Gorizacoff came home from Cyprus and did not like the way

Lagos, Jan. 10. A memorial erected by native chiefs to the man who is said to have inspired the late Edgar Wallace with the Idea of "Sanders of the River," was unveiled at Ibadan, in the Yor-in which my aunt was living, and they ba Country.

separated.

The man war Sir Robert L. Bower, Nothing more was heard of him who as Captain Bower was appointed until about 12 years after their

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the first British Resident at Ibadan marriage, when they met in drumulle in 1893, in the days when slave fashion. trading and fellsh worship were at the height in these parts.

The monument, a tower of con- crete blocks G5ft, high, In the centre of the town, was unveiled by Sir] Robert's son, Commander R

"A friend of the Burrows family, who had just returned from America, told story of how Gortzaenit had 'married' un American heiress worth about £40,000,

"News came that Gorizacoff and

Bower, M.P., who was accompanied the woman were arriving on a boat by his slater, Miss Constance Bower, from America.

The monument has a copper plate) bearing the inscription: "Captain R. L. Bower, Dist Resident of Ibadan, 1803-1807, was a fine character, won the Yorubas, and firmly is the Im- the universal and lasting esteem ut established the loyalty of the people perial Crown. This was a man."

Sir Robert Dower was six feet tal}| and physically quite unlike the char- ncter drawn by Mr. Wallace, but he dealt with recalcitrunt nilive chiefs with a coolness and decision which won their admiration, and the "time of Bower" is still remembered an un 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 confett! in the precincts of his church. A notice board was put up to that effect,

The board was torn down after a wedding at which the virur officiated. Subsequently, at Northampton Court he summoned Dorothy Ponton, aged twenty-five, of Gladstone House, Walgrave, and Minnie Alkins, aged fifty-ave, of The Bungalows, Wal- grave, accusing them of damaging the

FACE TO FACE

"My aunt and her brother went to meet the bout and came face to face with the pair as they came down the Kangway,

"There was A terrihin scene.! Gortacolt tried to pretend that he had never seen my aunt before,

"The immigration authorities re- fused, however, to let the American woman land, and she was sent back - on the same boat.

aunt nor

saw or

"Gortz coff slipped away from the quayside and neither my anyone in our family ever heard from him again.

"My aunt had a her father, John builder and Bristol, over the marriage.

"When

hen he died in 1877 she was disinherited and left penniless. "She eventually had to go out as a| cook to earn her living.

a bitter quarrel with

Sarrows, who was n

proprietor of

"She died in London about 40 years

ago 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" Rus, were unable to identify who had has been registered at done the damage, and the magls-the Reich Patent Office.

board.

Two witnesses, called by Mr, Seg-|

trales dismissed the case.

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YEARS' SILENCE

AIR LINER CRASH IN SURREY

Firemen fought for hours to save homes at Purley, Surrey, set ablaze when Dutch air liner crash-

ed in fog soon after leaving Croydon airport. Plane hit one house, then ploughed across road in tangle

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.

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UMBUKTU, remote city of the Sahara, which has for so long

of steamship The development 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.

had an almost legendary reputation, He coine

into contact with the coastal peoples, who began to absorb

will soon be entirely a legend.

The desert sands are relentlessly him.

smothering its sircals of low, flat-roofed

its course, leaving it high and dry five miles away in the desert.

rich net-

ALWAYS SOUTHWARDS And the desert sands relentlessly move southwards, drying up water- them under- courses, or driving ground, demolishing and burying native villages on its way. Once the Sahara was work of rive

of rivers. In the barren moun- tains of the Hoggar recent excava- tions have revealed the remains of canoes and the skulls of hippopotami, When the dried-up lake of Oulata, west of Timbuktu is flooded in the rainy season, crocodiles come surface. They st survive in the rivers below the desert, underground from the days when the Niger, be fore it changed its course,

mnde rich country, Herodotus salled with ease up the

neronching on it, houses. The Tuareg were splendid fighters. Oulato

the

The population is gradually evacuat But in time the French, as their

armies penetrated further and fur-Nile to the Congo. Only fifty years

ing the city.

ther into the desert, overcame their ago General Marchand, cutting his reached In fifty years' time Timbuktu may force opposition. To-day their way through the Sudan, no longer exist.

fighting spirit 15 crushed. The Fashoda, un the Nile, by tributaries which have now disappeared. To- Sahara Is as free from bandits as Scolland,

day you can ride down their sandy beds on horseback.

Once it was the chief city of the southern Sahara, the terminus on the Niger of the great desert trade route from the Mediterranean.

Only in the great mountain ranges In another two hundred years, of the desert, where travellers rurely even less. the Sahura, In its move

Such it was when Laing, a Scots-penetrale, do the pure-bred Tuareg southward, may have reached the

survive. And there, no longer tropical forest, smothering on man, discovered it in 1820,

active, they are slowly dying of con- way the savannah-bush country of sumption.

the French Sudan. Only Intensive The secret of their ancestry may tree-planting, at huge expense, can

For centuries the ralders, of the desert trade had been the Tuareg, the velled 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.

die with them.

Only a small French military post is stationed at Timbuktu. Only on occasional English traveller naks how to get there to the surprise of the French authorities, for whom it is no longer of interest.

stop it.

Irrigation and

DIVORCE AND £3,000

Hollywood, Jan. 1.. Miss Lola Lane, twenty-six-year- The few who remain in Timbuktu

old film actress ex-wife of Mr. Lew have become crossed with the Arabs, Even the Niger is forsaking it. Ayres, has obtained a divorce from Senegalese and the Negroes of the Once the city stood on the river's Mr. Alexander (A.) Hall, the direc

banks. Now the river has changed tor, plus £3,000-Router.

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