PRINCESS RADZIWILL.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 97, 22 April 1909, Page 3

PRINCESS RADZIWILL.

CLAIM AGAINST THE RHODES

ESTATE

"ROLLING IN MONEY."

LONDON, March 5. A claim of £1,400,000 by Princess Radziwill against the estate of the late Mr Cecil Rhodes was mentioned at the hearing of a summons by Mr Justice Eady in the Chancery Division on Wednesday. Mr William Arthur Gorst sued Princess Catherine Radziwill for £11,342, of which £10,500 was claimed under an agreement, dated July, 1904. This was between Mr Gorst, the Princess, and two gentlemen who were called guarantors—Mr Walker, managing director of Peter Walker -and Sons, and Mr William Watson Rutherford, of Liverpool. _ The guarantors, upon certain conditions precedent being complied with, were to guarantee a loan to be procured by Mr Gorst for the Princess.

The latter was to hypothecate her reversionary interest in her uncle'is estate in Russia, and also a claim' of between one and two millions standing a gain sit the estate of the late Cecil H holes, founded upon certain bills alleged to have been given her by Mir Rhodes. She wanted the loan specially to take steps to substantiate the claim against Mr Rhodes's estate. As a condition precedent to any responsibility by the guarantors-, they were to he satisfied within four monthis from the date of the agreement of tho validity of tho cl-aiims against Mr Rhories's estate and of her interest in the "Russian -estate. If they were not

so satisfied within that time the agreement was to be at an end. The agreement did actually come to an. end for that reason.

In the menatime, however, on 3rd September, 1904, the Princess repudiated the agreement when she had received news that her uncle was dead. Mr Go'i\st- claimed remuneration ooi the ground that the agreement was repudiated by the Princess within the four months.

The learned Judge, after hearing Mr Jolly, for the plain-tiff, who said he believed Princess Radziwill was absolutely rolling in money at the present time, assessed the damage the plaintiff had sustained at £1000. The plaintiff had been badly treated by the repudiations. As to- a sum of £500 which the plaintiff had procured to pay the guarantors' agents for their expenses, his Lordship thought the plaintiff was also entitled to recover that amount, and he gave judgment accordingly for £1500.

When opening a rifle club at" Wit-ham the other day, Field-Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood told some stirring stories in illustration of what good marksmanship can do. Thirty years ago, he said, during an attack by 23,000 Zulus on 1800 white men, a flag-bearer, himself unseen from the laager,^ was directing the flank attack of some thousands of warriors, who, covered by the hilly ground, would, if they had charged, have been' under fire for only thirty yards. The British General, who was outside the laager, shot the Zulu at 192 yards, and then shot a second and a third who had picked up his flag. The Zulus abandoned the attack,°and the position was saved. But who, asks a London journal, could have been the British General who thus played the part of David to the Zulu Goliaths? None but Sir Evelyn himself, as may be remembered by readers of his delightful reminiscences, "From Midshipman to Field-Marshal!"