Elephant mail is bein n used to send a message more than 1000 miles across India—from Cooch Behar to Barnda. The menace <s hems sent io the Maharajah Ehup Bahadur, of Cooch Behar, to hi« Hichnes= the Gackwar of Bnroda. The Dowager Maharani of Cooch Behar is the daughter of the Gaokwar The Slate elephant which is bearing the message is now trudging from Cooch Behar to Calcutta—a distance of -100 miles. From Calcutta it will go by shin to Bombay and thence it will walk on to Baroda The elephant, which is one of the Cooch Behar court tuskers, is called Jai Singh. As far as Calcutta it is being accompanied by Protiva Devi, a female elephant When the tnsker goes on board slvn at. Bombay, Protiva Devi will walk back to Cooch Behar,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23221, 19 June 1937, Page 3
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135Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 Otago Daily Times, Issue 23221, 19 June 1937, Page 3
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