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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1919.

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MONEY

MASTERS OF MONEY

He made millions, umseated kings and sowed the seed of wars, but he knew

XACTLY 100 years ago on October 5,

baby in the small Turkish town of Mughla opened his eyes for the first -time and wafled-a picture of pink, if petulant, innocence.

Innocence? Maybe then,

Zabaroff found London unco- but he grew up to be Sir operative after his Old Bailey Basil Zaharoff, most hated publicly. He went to Athens, man in the world and one of the richest merchant of Skuludis, took

rioing politician, to the blond, death they called him and good-looking Greek with the mystery man of Europe,

He fomented

There

look of noble arrogance.

mot love

He always displayed window boxes full of her favourite flowers so she could look out of. her window and take thein as a constant sign that he loved her.

Faithful to this

one love of his life, he waited for her (reedom.

In October 1977. by more He waited 25 years and then war. He chance, came stood convicted in the dock that put Zaharoff into munitions, in the asylum,

the fateful step in 1823 the mod duke dieci still

at the Old Bailey, stood later before the King to re- celve the GCB.

He was a man without love

and he wan a lover (when he was 80 a beauti. ful woman spoke of him as irresistible). And he was a llar.

The

agent in

Nordenfeldt Inunitions The following

Athens was retiring at Jast married Skułudls recommended Zaharoff The sequel, na to succeed him. Zaharoff got wa the job at £5 a week.

A quite

eliraax.

by

PAUL BRICKHILL

Princo

him to the higher strata of ing well. The war Zaharoff the Legion of Honour.

Monaco wanted another £100,- his duchess.

000 from Blanc. Blanc We chall sce,

fused. terrible Anti

Sir Basil was at his peak, 70 now, but still the sumo Im perious ere and "noble" rogante,

paid

Zaharpit £1,000,000 for a controlling in

the prince terest in the casino, Blan was efccfeti,

to the uniform of a Bulgarian | doctor, C gave a dramatic account of how he was early caught on the frontier

"They say."

of

added Zaharoff, re- "that

the Information. I brought back ended the war.": mation was supposed to be. He didn't say what the infor- when Nortienfeldt produced a

Ito Arst great coup came Early this century orders Yet with the end of the war

were pouring on practical submarine.

through to end war the armaments Zaharof! Zaharoff

He turned for Vickers, and now trade was dull. Zaharoff ng-

to his memories, ok it to his own country, he really began to build his quired a new interest. Pat- Five years later when he re-

particularly those of his triotism. He dreamed of re- tired from control, the casino duchess. He went dally to lay viving the power and glory of pald an annual proilt of £988,- flowers on her vault.

000. Zabaroff had never gambled a frane.

He always

Greece.

A ne sale. He was a patriot.

Wus be? He went to Greeas's "Look,"

He unseated kings and posed na a prince himself. bitter enemy. Turkey,

"But when it was all bolled down he was essentially a super-salesman without a conscience.

WRA

Ambition

his spur. and not enough human love leavened It.

Bocam o

money-changer

SOON

after

his

birth

Mughla, hard times hit his Greek parante aral tity' moved

to Constantinople.

A. wealthy

Greck called

2

fascinating series of articles in which the stories of men who made millions are told from a new and more intimate angle .. NUMBER ONE:

SIR BASIL ZAHAROFF

Iphestidi recognised the small he said, "Greece now has a sub- boy's smartness and arranged his marine. You must do something schooling.

Young Zaharola first Job boy with the Wos as a water Constantinoplo Fire Brigade,

Then ho became a money- changer and then a tourist tout, when he picked up the languages that were to be so uncful.

about that."

He sold marines.

Turkey

A nine salc,

two sub

He was

businessman.

Sold inferior gun to Austria

fortune.

He formed subsidiary com- Greece, panies and banks all over Europe to enrry out bis colossal contracts.

Bls influence grew, The year 1912 Baw Zaharoff the king- makter. He was actually able to offer the throne of Portugal w Prince Christopher of Greece. Christopher sald "No."

Put

Venizelos

Tho

Groek disaster

hundred

clled.

vehemently

nied he ran the casino,

shrunken old he was driving around

dr-

By 1934,

man. his

cheatinu at Dalincourt,

near Paris, alternately

DRINK

Coca-Cola

IN

BOTTLES

Coca-Cola

Ice Cold

Hotties under authority of the Copa-Cara Co. BY HONG KOna bottlers, Federal ing. U.S.A.

INVITATION

TO.

PHOTOGRAPHERS

Entries are invited for the 4th international Salon

of

Pictorial Photography Organised by

Meantime, the one love of electric wheel chair and a

In on The Photographic Society of Hong Kong

his 55.

Venizelos he his life had THROUGH

come to fruition. freakish old 1010 model car. into supporting the mad Greek In

hypnotized Lloyd George A year after the duke's death the asylum. the man who

A maximum of four prints may be submitted by any Waiting for death he obliter- venturo in 1919 of marching had walted 25 years married' ated on Turkey.

his. Decrety

one entrant, and all prints submitted will be viewed by duchess. He was 74, she

for all time by Öne

burning his diaries.

a panel of judges who will select those to be hung in the thousand Greeks

stuffed them anullier 100,000

Into the kitchen exhibition. And then the irony, of it. stove' and ruined his best um- lost their homes, Greece sank The love that had finally found brella

Full particulars and entry forms may be obtained poverty Lloyd George hh

deserted him.

doing. It World War tost his Government

She died

They must from Francis Wu's Studio, Cloucester Arcade, or from the and Sir 1 months later.

have been inflammable recorda} undersigned. broke out he had interests Basil-the only bright крат-

because they set fire to the house

did considerable tlamage.

into power

JHEN the First

Inte

In the French armaments fem lost £8,000,000.

Did he grieve? shipyards la

of Schneider Creusot, shitp- yards in Turkey, Rush,

bir intereste kers and partnerships Krupps.

He became

Cannot

Yes, over

sy he had no in the limited, extent to

£ No huma ǹ

for

contacts

now

RLY practically had to carry

Zaharoff into

the church the funeral service. He

and

in

Forgotten splendour

retired quietly to his magnif- E lived on in Epiritual de

cent thateau 30 miles Paris

from

solation

for two

more years. A skeleton in a dazz.

in View his money and defeat. There with Lo no sign he was Goddened over the slaughter he inspired. He turned his back on Grecee of Munitions

virtual Minister and Venizelos, to the Allies and a confidential intermediary be- One tween Lloyd George, and Cle- heart because menceau.

the very limited

Ife had no human contacts ling shirt-front, he dined alone which he was in human terms then. It was not polite-r politic with

the buge people he DID have hu- loved by no one.

Loved no one

Wag nt

table that had to refer to his Interests in man feelings

He turned been so many brilliant feasts. German artnaments,

ngala to Auwers: Inid out

Banknotes decorated the and Japanese walls. Kordens When an associate was kill. Dutch One

mon

Power he had, Zahnroft always ed in one of his wars, for in- gardiens.

and admired-the Greek Venizelos, starte, he would

money-it was still coming in When

make The King Constantine ot sign

Now he began to make him- at the rate of £15,000 a day. et the cross, Greek self into a hero. Grence fought shy of the war fashion. Zaharof financed

On November under.

27, 1936, he dressing

and He told one admirer how he collapsed while of children, and first met his duchess when died easily. acquaintances whom he met. He bolting horses in a Paris park. There is irony in the sequel. pul particularly those of his he gallantly stopped a pair of His story wasn't quite over.

Kave large cheques to child-

ת

was fond

Iphestidi took him busines Vital young Zaharoff put new life Into It.

Into

his IN 1886 he

was In Vienna competing with

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だんまする

Zaharoff the super-salesinan, persunded the Austrians that way too com-

Ipbxtil Maxim to sell machine-guns to hand campaign that drove him promised him bonuses but didn't Austrin, Maxim's gun

the throne and pay them, so the real Zaharod, easily the better.

Venizelos in power, thus draw. aged about 22, came to ԵՐ

ing Greece into the war. surface.

He

was from

And there was Venizelos' friend Zaharoff to sell him

old

ren's hospitals in Greece, Lon. In the don and Puris.

all

the Emperor

Frunz

And he dave a large cheque ful to Paris Zoo for the monkeys duchess. because he saw them one day after the and hungry

Jong after

He paid himself a bonus from Maxim's

the firm's cach. A generous one, plicated for war, though Maxing the arms he wanted. some. £8,000. Prudently waiting to explain he left at the Joseph's initials ki a target in

not had cut

zame moment for England,

Then his vanity betrayed him.

allets.

He was in high Allied coun- cold els during the war.

The arm war. poured out and

monty

Maxim began to realise gent of Zalieroft and his or-

the poured hi He had taken a short cut to ganisation.

war counselied

the

were critical

His

coach attached he He was buried alongside rescued a terrifled and beauti- duchers in the vault at Balln-

young

woman

the court.

A few weeks later thieves broke He was a forgetful liar. Not ignored the rich man's worth- into the vault, They

he told novelist

He had a yearning for beauty Rosita Forbes he first met the less corpse. in Iffc and to come extent he duchess on the stairs of the sublimated It in flowers. Escorial

in Madrid

Palace

ĺbe luchess

wns

In 1808 he was When things the riches with his self-pro- strewd enough to merge

Believing

moted bonus.

with for the Allies, Zaharoff who Beautiful things, but inant when her mad husband brutal buried with jewels, they drags Now he took a Nordenfeldts.

stood to gain most from a long mate feeling nothing kely crushed her arm and made her bones from her rest-

ing-place and ecattered them. her cry out in poin heroically

Zahorolf could not have his "I hil him across the face," sold Zatinruff.

oho love even in death.

"Next day there was a duci with the duke and I

was wounded."

short cut to adulation.

In the next few years Zatiaroff "Carry on to the bitter end.” He had met a

Maxim pale, pretty sold

guns irs huge builder's daughter called Emily quantities to Austria aut other The bllier end left him onc Burrows. To impress her he countries.

of the world's richest men, re- posed an

putedly worth about £20,000,

Russian prince, Zacharom

Zacharias Basilius Gorizacol.

Arrest after marriago

Again and again he used his 000, "fear" technique of selling.

The

He sold arms to Russia and Basil then went to Turkey (Russia's less) bitter enemy

as well) pointed much Russia hud

but how bought and a nervous Turkey gave him

n big order her at (Some of them, made in Bir

too.

A

CCORDING to church re-

cords, ho married

Knightsbridge on October 14. mingham, later poured shot and

1872.

Not unnaturally' the "royal" -wedding was in the papers, and not unnaturally the police noticed the familarity of the

nam.c.

In December "Prince" Zaharoff was in the dock, at the Old Balley. Iphertidi camo London to givò evidence.

to

Zaharoff. forever after told dramatically how he had really been, a partner In the Arm and how at the last crucial moment of the trial he found the musing deed of partnership...

shell on British and Anzac troops in Uie Dardanelles.)

In 1807 Nordenfeldt-Maxims

merged with British Vickers.

Mr Vickers was so impressed with Zaharbff that he made him Continental representative the whole organisation.

ol

He made hundreds of thou- sands ΟΙ pounds in commission from the Russo-Jap war, celling i impartially, to both sides,

Fell in love with Duchess

He challenged his accuser SPAIN and U.S.A. went to war

with perjury (hê said).

accuser broke down Zaharoff was gloriously

quitted.

in 1898. Like a homing The vulture the salesman sped, to

and Madrid... ac- *-

There he met the beautiful and influential young Duchess of

A pity the records show none Marchena, spake her soft words,

of this dramat They show that and landed a contract for 20,-

the major chargo lapsed throughs 000,000 dollars,

Lack of Jurisdiction and that

Zaharoff changed his plea on a But

something els

lagu love with her.

terriile

minor chargo to "Guilly" and happened here because ho fall in was bound, over.

on

What happened to Emily is Her husband went into not clear. A woman who claimed to be her niece said.before the war that the deserted Emily be came a cool and died in

neciderit with cooking-faf! \-

asylum, hopelessly mad. Zabaroff wanted to marry her. She, a Cathole, wouldn't divorce the madman, but eventually she was

gloriously, 60, years ago after an, installed in a house opposite

Zaharoff's in Paris,

Enharoff.

Control of the Casino

LICKING

his wounds from the Greek debacle he went British made him Sir to Monte Carlo. (G.C.B. and G.B.E.

The famous casino there un- and the French lotted der Camille Blane, was not du

can

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