CHEQUE FOR £20,000
TREATED AS (A JOKE. -ocnnm Ve^'ln? St °?' "/-''how a cheque for nn? ir the . Sl & natur ° «* a famous Anglo-Greek millionaire*, Sir Basil Zaharoff in ParYs "* j has come t0 li & It appears that two/months ago Sir Basil Zaharoff visited the ,Taris Zoo = and talked to the guardian of /he monkey house. He waxed indignant at/ the miserable state of £?n norT key ol T', a,ld when told thafc £20,000 wa s wan / e d to put it in proper ?W, h8 wrote a cheque for that amount and/handed it to the keener. The lattei thinking he had to deal' with an amiable luinatic, gave the cheque to the office chief laughingly put it in a drawer and /forgot all about it for two months a matter of form, he sent it to the Ministry of Education. To his horror he promptly received a snarp noWaskmg what was meant bv keeping, a cheque signed by Zaharoff for two montns. / Sir Biv'sil Zaharoff is a well-known ContiicSi /> an ker, and was born in Greece in lobO. f He was educated at London and fans/ and established chairs of aviation at tfte Universities of Paris and Petrograd. aiyu also one in Enjrland attached to the imperial College of Science.
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Evening Star, Issue 17548, 31 December 1920, Page 12
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209CHEQUE FOR £20,000 Evening Star, Issue 17548, 31 December 1920, Page 12
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