LONE GIRL'S CAR DASH

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22328, 31 July 1934, Page 10

LONE GIRL'S CAR DASH

THRILLS IN BULGARIA HELD UP OVER SO TIMES. In a baby motor car of a comparatively old type, a pretty English girl, Miss Madge Anderson, recently accom plished a unique performance. She travelled from London to Constantinople and crossed Bulgaria in the middle of the Bulgarian revolution. Miss Anderson, who is the eldest daughter of Mr J. M. Anderson, Briti.su director in .the Turkish capital of the Istanbul Telephone Company, went )ut to join her parents, and encouutered a series of remarkable adventures. The girl's entry into Bulgaria coincided with the revolution, and she was held up over SO times by armed soldiers. Several times she nearly ran into barricades drawn across the road, and behind which machine guns were turned on her. During the whole of her journey across Bulgaria she did not meet one other motor car

Near Harmanli Miss Anderson lost her way, and was taken into custody by soldiers, but was allowed to proceed shortly afterwards. Owing to the unsettled conditions in Bnlgaria Miss Anderson was unable <o 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.