GIRL’S CLIFF ORDEAL

Evening Star, Issue 20846, 16 July 1931, Page 9

GIRL’S CLIFF ORDEAL

FALLING “ TOO FAST FOR FEAR ” LONDON, June 23. A girl’s recent ordeal on the cliffs id Devon, and the way she escaped-from what at first appeared to be a fall to certain death,' were revealed to a Press representative for the first time. Miss Barton, of Kensington, who was staying at the fishing village of Brecr, in Devonshire, was walking along the edge of some high cliffs studying bird life. She had just focussed her glasses when the cliff suddenly crumbled beneath her, and she was hurled on the rocks blow. “ It all happened in a flash,” she said, : “but I seemed to have plenty of time to think while I was falling. My first thought was what a fool I was ? and my second that everything was finished,I seemed to bo travelling too fast for fear. Then I was lucky enough to be caught on a ledge. From there I had to climb back somehow, as no one had seen me fall. It seemed to last for ages.” Miss Barton’s arm was broken, but otherwise she escaped unhurt from her. terrifying ordeal.