BEAR’S ESCAPADE ON STEAMER UPSETS SEA CADET
COLOMBO, September 26 (Rec. 9.35 a.m.). —A Merchant Navy cadet, Ronald Ralph, aged 17, who is making his first sea voyage in the Bri-tish-Indian steamship, Carpentaria; broke all records for a long leap from the sleeping position when he found a big brown Himalayan female bear beside him in his bunk. The bear was on her way from Calcutta to Sydney’s Taronga Park zoo and broke loose from hei' cage. Chief Officer V/. E. Davies first found her sitting,-on the after-hatch, watching one of the Moslem crew performing his morning devotions. The chase began. The bear ran into Ralph’s cabin, found a tea tray, swallowed the milk, sugar and tea leaves, and climbed into bed beside the sleeping cadet. When Ralph aw&ke he made one jump and was out of the cabin. The bear, after visiting the third engineer in his cabin, Went to the ship’s dispensary, where she drank a bottle of methylated spirits. A trail of dates eventually coaxed her back to her dem
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 September 1949, Page 5
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