7000 MILES CHASE

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 138, 7 December 1929, Page 20

7000 MILES CHASE

MAN'S LOVE. ; FOR DOG

A'man recently" l.trayorsed TOOtfniilcs of land and .: sea jyZsliip, traiiC aud aeroplane, consuls were agitated,"arguments raged: in two Mediterranean ports, and lives were risked, all for the sake of Jimmie, a. little wire-haired, terrier from Bognor (England-), saysan overseas paper. .<..■■,-, '""- Jimmie had been loanedAby 'his master to his fiancee to accompany her on a trip she was making to the . East. Master was to go with them as'far as' Marseilles.- '■ ..... ■ Everything -was perfect until'the day before Jimmies ship, the BritishIndia liner Modasa, sailed. Then suddenly the girl broke oft the -engagement, and the trouble started. Jimmies master sailed in the ship Because his passage was booked and he wanted to get his dog friend back.. The girl had changed from first to second class, and persuaded the cap-: tain to extract a promise -from her: former fiance, that. ho would not attempt to speak to her as;, long as he was on board. Master was content \ with :.this,. for Jimmie had to be exorcised oil deck, and they could at least see each other: Then, the day before they reached Marseilles, Jimmie chased a balfsrathor toovigorously and'fell overboard: Master promptly jumped into .tho sea anilrescued him. ; ■. Master .later sent a letter to tho girl from Marseilles by courier, asking "for the return of the d9g. Ho received a reply telling him to come and. fetch it. _ Ho rushed to the ship, only t 0 be informed by the captain that the girl had changed her mind. ' Argument followed argument, and after the ship had been delayed an hour, the young man was politely but forcibly put ashore. ■ Ho then determined to beat the ship to Port, Said, and there make another attempt to recover Jimmie. He caught" a train the same afternoon for Genoa, arriving there at 5 o'clock the next morning, and after some hours' dashing about in a taxicab he found the local manager of Imperial Airways, and asked for a passage in the next aeroplane to Alexandria. He was some pounds short of the fare, however, and so could only get a ticket to Tabruk, a remote town in Italian Libya. ;' He took the risk and left by air, in" the hope of being able to oorrow the rest of the fare from the British Consul. At Corfu ho was fined for not having a visa. • He borrowed enough money from the British Consul at Athens to carry him' on in the aeroplane to Alexandria, whence he_ rushed by train to Port Said, arriving a day beforo't^o Modasa and in time to cable.noin6 ri'or money. He boarded the liner accompanied by the Consul. A. heated triangular argument followed, between, the captain the young man, and the Consul."1 The girl at first locked herself infthe cabin and refused-to- spoaß- - even--wrth the captain, but Jimmies master was so persistent that at last the dog was returned to its owner.