PENNILESS PRETENDER
CLAIM TO BE A KING’S SON. A penniless Pretender to the throne of Abyssinia applied for relief to the magistrate of Paarl, Cape Province, South Africa, recently. The applicant, speaking with a cultured EnglHi voice, claimed that he was “ Prince Jegreffa Zaranie, eldest son of the late King Menelik of Ethiopia.” He claims to have taken part in the attack on Khartum in the Dervish campaign, in 1885.. when General Gordon was slain. Arrested by the Portuguese on a murder charge, Zaranie was pardoned by the late Earl Kitchener, who sent him to the Cape. Later he served in the Boer War, since then he has filled humble positions. He says that he is now too old to worry about kingly crowns.
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Evening Star, Issue 21079, 16 April 1932, Page 24
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124PENNILESS PRETENDER Evening Star, Issue 21079, 16 April 1932, Page 24
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