FOUR MILES’ DASH

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22368, 15 September 1934, Page 20

FOUR MILES’ DASH

DOG'S RACE FOR HELP

MISTRESS KILLED IN ALPS,

While his mistress lay dead at the foot of a mountain crevasse 100 ft deep in Switzerland a few weeks ago, a dog scrambled down the mountain side aim raced four miles to its home at Geneva to fetch help. The woman, who was aged 24. set out to climb the Salcve, the 4000 ft mountain that overlooks the city of Geneva. While picking wild cyclamen she lost her foothold and fell down a ravine, being lulled instantly. The dog, a German sheep dog, which had accompanied its mistress, saw the fall, and after barking frantically to attract attention, rushed down the 4000 feet of rocky mountainside to the frontier town of Veyrier, and thence a further three miles to Geneva. Feeble scratching at the door of the home gave the alarm, but in tile meantime a solitary climber on the mountain had noticed the body and had set off to fetch help. The body was not recovered til] 5 o’clock the next morning. ’> Another tragedy was reported from the Weisshorn, where a young student from Zurich, climbing with his family, sTippcd and fell and was killed on a glacier 300 feet below. The boy’s father is a missionary who was captured by Chinese bandits two or three years ago.