The Archive · 1927

Ship's Kitten Saved

After the preliminary interview, the writer returned to the St.

Dominic and was just in time to see Capt. Cook of the latter vessel. He was just about "to enter motor car and was carrying a tiny kitten, In reply to. the wi queries, he said that kitten was snyed from the wreck by the wi less operator. There was, he said, another animal in his cabin board the tug, the identity of which had not yet been established. was a sort of weasel which also had been saved. One of the crew of the Ditmar Koel had obtained this animal whilst in Calcutta and at that time if was scarcely able to walk. They had fed it and fondled it and it was now qui tame. The officers had insisted that this funny looking object be saved, and at great personal risk, the Chief and second officers had chased and caught it as the animal was contemplating jumping into the sca as it dashed over the decks of their "The captain of the S. T. St. Dominic, said that the fate of the!

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