IN DARKEST AFRICA
Feared Loss Of Husband And
Wife.
BRITISH EXPLORERS
LONDON, February 5
It is feared that the worst has happened to Mr. and Mrs. Glover, wiu left England in December, 1920, on a scientific exploration through the Central African desert.
News has reached the "Daily Express" in a roundabout way. An African merchant living in Manchester has received a letter from an official in Maidugari. 50 miles south-west of Lake Chad, in Northern Nigeria, who says: "A runner has just come in with bad news.* Mr. and Mrs. Glover have been killed in French territory."
The Glovers' friends in London were recently very anxious because of the. sudden stoppage of their regular communications. The last letter from Faya, in French West. Africa, 500 miles north-east of Lake Chad written by Mrs. Glover on September 28, was received by her sister in Croydon about Christmas. Mrs. Glover wrote: "We have travelled over a waterless desert and were often from 19 to 20 hours in the saddle. I am now 700 miles fu.ther than any white woman has ever been before."
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 30, 6 February 1928, Page 7
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