PENNILESS PRETENDER.
CLAIM TO BE A KING'S SON. A penniless Pretender to the throne of Abyssinia applied for relief to the magistrate of Paar), Cape Province, South Africa recently. The applicant, speaking with a cultured English voice, claimed that he was " Princo Jegreffa Zaranie, eldest son of the late King Menelik of Ethiopia." He claims to have taken part in the attack on Khartum in tho Dervish campaign, in 1885, when General Gordon was slain. Arrested by the Portugese 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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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21153, 9 April 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)
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124PENNILESS PRETENDER. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21153, 9 April 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)
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