THE LONG, LONG TRAIT.
WALK OF 16,000 MILES. JOCK SCOTT BACK IN LONDON. (Times Air Mail Service.) LONDON, July 7. Jock Scott, of Woking, falling to land a Job in London, thought he’d walk off his disappointment. He’s Ju-st back from the walk. It began in 1933 and was 15,000 miles long. Twenty-three pairs of boots, cast into the gutter as their .service ceased, mark Jock’s trail to Capetown. Just to make the walk more than a whim he took with him a letter from Sir lan Hamilton to the Capetown Highlanders. The answer came back with him to Southampton yesterday. His worst time? When he took a 1000-mlle wrong turning. The Abyssinian war stopped his trek south at Wadi Haifa. He had to make a detour. His most exciting moment.? When he lost his false teeth in the Libyan Desert. An Arab policeman, who saw him hunting around, gave chase. He ♦**'"„-* jock was a spy.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20260, 31 July 1937, Page 25 (Supplement)
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156THE LONG, LONG TRAIT. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20260, 31 July 1937, Page 25 (Supplement)
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