ADVENTUROUS JOURNEY
In a baby motor-ear an English girl, Miss Madge Anderson, recently accomplished a unique performance. She travelled from London to Constantinople and crossed Bulgaria in ' the middle of tho Bulgarian revolution. Miss Anderson, who is tho eldest daughter of Mr. J. M. Anderson,' British director in the Turkish capital of tho Istanbul Telephone Cqmpany, went out to join lier parents, and encountered a series of remarkable adventures. The girl's entry: into Bulgaria coincided with the revolution, and she was held up over eighty times, by armed soldiers. Several times she nearly ran into barricades drawn across thoj j'road, and behind which machine-guns were' turned on her. During tho whole of her journey across Bulgaria she did not meet one other motor-car. Near I Harmanli Miss Anderson lost her way, and was taken; into custody, by soldiers, but was. allowed to proceed shortly afterwards. Because of the unsettled conditions in Bulgaria Miss Anderson was unable to change any money, and she arrived in Turkey penniless, without any petrol, half-starved, and utterly worn out after three sleepless nights. The Turkish peasants, however, showed her -hospitality, giving her food and petrol, and lending her money. Ultimately she arrived in Constantinople, "dead beat," but safe.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 49, 27 August 1934, Page 15
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