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THE CHINA MAIL, JAN
GIRL FIGHTS ON SEA B
DIVER
CAPTAIN OF A PEARLING CREW AT 22
London, January 8.
Pretty twenty-two-years-old Martha Wranhill, a tiny brunette with laughing brown eyes, is visit- ing London after spending two years at the strangest and most exciting job in the world for a
woman.
She is the captain of a Red Sea pearling dhow. Muffled up in a heavy fur coat to protect her from what she considers Arctic weather, she talked to me in her small London hotel.
She took up her strange profes- sion when her father died two and a half years ago, leaving her strand- ed in Djibouti.
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CHASED BY PIRATES
"On another trip we were chased by one of the gangs of pirates who Infest the pearling grounds.
"My father was a trader Abyssinia, but his business completely after the Italian quest and we moved to our head- quarters in Dijbouti," she told me.
"He had done a small business in buying pearls, and that gave me the idea of running a pearling dhow though the pirates beat them when he died suddenly, leaving me they held their tongues. practically penniless.
"The pirates tore my boat
"Before the pirates boarded us I slipped over the side with our haul of pearls in a little bag tied to my belt and held on to the mooring- rope that trailed in the water.
"I prayed that none of my crew would tell where I was, and
al-
up,
to
"With what little money I had I pieces, trying to find the pearls. bought one of the native pearling-Then, when they were unsuccessful, boats and collected a diving crew they stove in the side of the boat who would work on a sharing basis with an axe and sailed, off.
"We patched the hole as best we could with pieces of sail and limped home."
with me.
TRAPPED
"My first trip to the pearling bed nearly cost me my life.
"One of the natives, whom I made the mate, had
known my father before he died, and he took us to a secret oyster bed.
"Suddenly I saw through the clear water that one of the men had been trapped by a piece of rook that had fallen and caught his foot. There was no one to help me, so I had to dive to the rescue myself.
*Thinking that it would be bet- ter for him to lose his foot than his life, I picked up a big oyster-knife before I went over....
"When I got near him the man panicked. He grabbed hold of me and held me down with him,
The shock made me release my breath, and for a moment I thought I would drown.
"Practically unconscious, I kicked out and caught him in the stomach. His grip relaxed, and I shot to the surface, just in time.
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GEN. GAMELIN POSTPONES TRIP
Paris, Yesterday.
It is announced here that Gen- eral Gamelin, Chief of the French General Staff, has put off his journey to North Africa, where he had planned to make, with Vice- Admiral Darlan, a tour of the French fortifications in Algeria, | Morocco and Tunisia.
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Bringing Up Father
BY GOLLY- IT'S TOUGH TO BE BROKE – I DON'T MIND SO MUCH FER ME- SELF- BUT I FEEL SO SORRY FER MAGGIE AN'ME DAUGHTER-
MR. JIGGS-1AM PROF CHRIS SENDO-~ | WANT YOU TO KNOW FAM THE GREAT PIANO-PLAYER-
DOES ANY- ONE BESIDESI YOU AN' ME KNOW IT-?
YOUR WIFE WANTS ME TO TEACH HER
SINGING – BUT UNDERSTAND YOU ARE BROKE - AND
UNDER THOSE CONDITIONS –I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO
HELP HER-
I'M GLAD YOU TOLD
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