BULLDOG AND BULLOCKS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18949, 21 February 1925, Page 2 (Supplement)

BULLDOG AND BULLOCKS.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC SLOCKED. For four hours an enraged bulldog recently held up the railway station staff at. Rainha.ni, Kent. On a journey from Kilburn te> Rainham the dog shook off its muzzle and nursed its wrath to such a. pitch that when the new owner approached it in the stationmaster's office, where it was chained, it leapt at his throat. The man flung his arm across his throat for protection, and was bitten in the hand. The bulldog then jumped on to a stool and tr>ok possession ot the place. The stationmaster, keeping close to the vail, was just beyond the animal's reach, and he looked far from happy as he issued tickets to passengers. Staff and passengers alike were terrorised until a. ve.terin<i!Y surgeon arrived and had the anim::! shot. Two bullocks landed iroin a steamer at Merklands Wharf, Glasgow, broke away from the herd, and one of them, under cover of darkness, entering a railway yard, got on to the underground passenger line. For three .miles the animal rushed along the line, passing several stations, and at last mounted the platform at'Dalnianiock, vhero it was shot. .Railway traffic was held up for an hour. The other bullock careered through the streets in the centre of the city, ran into and damaged two motor-cars, and knocked down two men. Trapped iu a cul-de-sac, the animal Mas shot.

fore the mutiny ho made several visits with fellow officers to Kashmir, lor .shooting anel fishing. After the dusty, dry plains and hot winds of India, Kashmir was a perfect I'aradi.-e; exquisite scenery, lovely river and lakes, green turf, fruit, trees —ail these were beyond description. Then there were the marvellous Kashmir women, villi their fair skins and long black hair, who innocently used to bathe in hundreds by the river bank, and ivould hardly get out of the way when the soldiers passed in their boats. Die young subalterns vere allowed to pitch their tents iii a garden belonging to the Maharajah, and were, invited to dine at tin' palace. Sir Ueorge was enjoying himself in Kashmir when the mutiny broke out. On the way back to l'eshawur, whore, his regiment, was I hen stationed, he was attacked by some of the mutineers, who, having been disarmed, had escaped to the hills. He had a few servants with him. but no arms except his .sporting rifle ami gun. Still, there was Ranee, his bullterrier. tin tame the mutineers, the men behind pushing on those in front.' .As they came nearer, Sir Ueorge took up his rifle and called out to them to stop. At that moment Ranee sprang into the nearest man's face and bore him to the ground, making a fearful noise all the while, and the crowd turned and ran. Ranee, leaving her victim, followed them up, biting their naked legs and pulling off their blankets. No engagement in the vholo of the mutiny was so complete and swift a vic-t-ory.