A ROAD BLOCKED BY HIPPOPOTAMUS

Taranaki Daily News, 3 June 1935, Page 12

A ROAD BLOCKED BY HIPPOPOTAMUS

GIRL’S THRILLING NIGHT DRIVE IN LIGHT CAR Miss Phil Paddon, the Devon gii‘l touring in a light car from Algiers to Johannesburg, recently reached Nairdbi, Keriya. . , Driving in the dark one night she camb on a hippopotamus, which refused to move. She had to steer , her car through an evil-smelling ditcn to get past. She was churning over muddy jungle roads when she was attacked by a leopard. She accelerated; and almost drowned the bfeast in mud.

“Neither of them can punch to crack an egg, and I can lick them bdth mysMf, long as I have been out of training. That is what Jack Dempsey, formerly the world’s heavyweight champion, said about the “outsize” fighters, Primo Camera, and Raylmpellitiere, who met in New York recently. Dempsey had refereed the bout. #* . * “I have no intention of turning professional,” said Dorothy Round, England’s woman champion in lawn tennis, . when she arrived home after her recent world tour. “I have been invited . to make instructional films,’ she added. "In view of the recent decision of the International Lawn Tennis Federation on the matter, these offers do not interest me.”