AFRICAN EXPLORERS.
FEARS FOR THE WORST. LONDON, Feb. 4. It is feared that the worst has happened to Mr and Mrs Glover, xvho left England in 1926 for the purposes of scientific exploration through the Central African desert. Nexx r s lias reached the Daily Express in a roundabout way that an African merchant living at Manchester receix-ed a letter from an official at Maidujari, in Northern Nigeria, stating: “A runner has just come in xvith the bad news that Mr and Mrs Glover have been killed in French territory.” Mr and Mrs Glover’s friends in London recently became most anxious because of the sudden stoppage of regular communications. The last letter came from Faya, in French territory, in West Africa, 500 miles north-east of Lake Chad, and xvas Written by Mrs Glover on September 28, and received by her sister at Croydon about Christmas. It stated: “We have travelled over a waterless desert, often being 19 to 20 hours in the saddle. lam noxv 700 miles further than any white xx-o-man has ever been before.” —A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 58, 6 February 1928, Page 7
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