TYPISTE AS STOWAWAY.

Grey River Argus, 12 August 1925, Page 3

TYPISTE AS STOWAWAY.

GIRL’S “HARD LUCK'’ STOT.Y. NEW YORK TO ENGLAND. BLTTF' AND confession. Thrilling adventures, brought to * prosaic end by hard anti fa>t passport regulations. have been experienced by Miss Catherine Welsh, a 30-year <>l I vneriean typiste. who stowed away at New York fur a passage to England c:i the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of France. Mliss Welsh, however, was doorir 1 to disappointment. Iler hopes of seeing "‘the sights” of England and I’. <rere dashed to the ground. Iler in* evitable detection resulted in v. h:r flight have been expected. She s •ent back across the Atlantic. She <pent 24 hours on tho ship at Southampton, and only s t f ot < n lai d • 1 «?ie was transferred to the liner Mclka. oho then left for Montreal in this ‘ h”, rfOr parents having cabled her thirdclass fare. '•ft was ard luck getting so rmar, yet not being able to see my friends.” remarked Miss Welsh, a pretty, dr irkmured studious-looking girl. *‘l h-.ve wanted to go to France for a long •ime. T made manv friends in Paris during the war and havo regularly corresponded with them. They an I my parents were aware 1 intended to go *o France when T got the chance, nut nob (ly know, not even myself, whet chc opportunity would come. got on board the Empress of France in New York with an ordmnrv Visitor’s pass and mixed wf'h the r-v--aengers. No one took any notice < f me, and J remained on bon’d when tl *• /essel left. Then I realised I was in for it. and in a rather serious position, 40 I hi<l away. I found a spare cabin, .Hid was very comfortable. altho’",*’t •easick the first day. J took my irc'-’s with the other passengers, and nobody •ecm cd to notice me particularly. ••It was on the third everything wnsa discovered. The authorities found there was a passenger on board who could not be ■ nun*- 1 lor. 1 was accordingly summoned before the captain and questioned. ll’ was very kind, and asked me all sons of things—Had I a passport? Why was 1 on board? I had no passport. ami to gain time I thought t would be a good idea to say I had my memory. I afterwards found it was d mistake to say this, f r nur-es v. M*nt to watch me to see whether n y actions were unbalanced. •‘So I decided that unleis I <onf ♦•d the truth things might be made very difficult for me when I got to Europe. Then I admitted that 1 had nn busin ■< on board and that I wanted to go to France to see some friends, ;»nd board ed tho Einpi | she was bound for Cherbourg. < r [that everybody was very kind to me, but I was told that as T had no port nothing old be done. ] h.i ’ ’ » [ luggage, but was lent everything I needed. Tam a tvpiste i»:mk 1 »’ 1 . but have been unable to work for f i time owing to an injury to my sb.