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THE
TROOPS IN ACTION AGAINST WOLVES
Bulgarian Government Officials Attacked.
VILLAGES INVADED
Sota.
Wolves have appeared on the outskirts of Sofia and troops in a military post near the city were turned out to repel the attack of a large pack of the hungry beasts, which "wete driven off by rifle fire.
In the Burgas district owing to the exceptionally hard winter the wolves have become extremely dar ing. Cattle have been attacked and killed in the streets of the vil lages in the evening and in the Common fields such attacks are
in broad daylight.
''
Two Government officials of Kar- nobat had a narrow escape' when driving home at night. They were attacked by a pack of wolves. Their horses took fright and bolted, The wolves raced alongside and began to drag the horses down but the officials managed to keep them off
safety of the town,
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THE SEA RAIDERS
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And, as if he had not already been in sufficient peril that day, Mr. He approached his mark with all Fison went with the boat to point the assurance which the absolute out the exact spot of his adventure As the tide was down, it required A shepherd in the same district security of this country against all was attacked by a long wolf but, forms of animal life gives its in- considerable detour to reach the habitants. The round bodles spot, and when at last they came off helped by his dog, the shepherd moved to and fro, but it was only the ladder-way, the mangled body alew the wild beast-Reuter.
The water was when he surmounted the skerry of had disappeared. boulders I have mentioned that he now running in, submerging first realised the horrible nature of the one slab of slimy rock and then an- discovery. It came upon him with other, and the four men in the boat the workmen, that is, the boatman, some suddenness.
The rounded bodies fell apart as and Mr. Fison-now turned their The came, into sight over the ridge attention from the bearings - off and displayed the plakish object to shore to the water beneath the keel "At first they could see little below be, the partially devoured body of a human being, but whether of them, save a dark jungle of lami-
BORN BEFORE HIS GREAT-UNCLE,
Birth Coincidence in Poland.
Wlocklawek, Poland.
2.
A women of 58, her daughter and man or woman he was unable to saria, with an occasional darting her grand-daughter all gave birth say. And the rounded bodies were fish. Their minds were set on ad- to healthy children during the same new and ghastly-looking creatures, venture, and they expressed their night, in the village of Krustyna, in shape somewhat resembling an disappointment freely. But pre- near Brest-Kujawski.
octopus, and with huge and very sently they saw one of the monsters The first child to be born was long and flexible tentacles, colled swimming through the water sex that of the 17-year-old grand-copiously on the ground. The skin ward, with a curious rolling motion daughter, Mrs. Wisniewaka, bad glistening texture, unplea- that suggested to Mr. Fison the
The midwife was then called to lift to see, lika shiny leather. spinning roll of a captive balloon. attend the birth of this child's The downward bend of the ben Almost immediately after, the way-] 21st Mar.uncle, and before morning his great-tacle-surrounded mouth, the curing streamers of laminaria 1st Apr. uncle had also been born.-Eauter. ous excrescence at the bend, the extraordinarily perturbed, parted! 15th Apr.
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tentacles, and the large, intelligent for a moment, and three of these eyes gave the creatures a grotes-beasts became darkly visible, strug- que suggestion of a face. They gling for what was probably some were the size of a fair-sized swine fragment of the drowned man. about the body, and the tentacles a moment the coplous olive-green seemed to him to be many feet in ribbons had poured again over this length. There were, he thinks, writhing group, i
In
seven or eight at least of the crea- At that all four men, greatly tures. Twenty yards beyond them, excited, began beating the water amid the surf of the now return-with oars and shouting, and Imme- tumultuous ing tide, two others were emerging!diately they saw a
They from the sea.
movement among the weeds. Their bodies lay flatly on the desiated to see more clearly, and ́as
ed at their risk into the hazardous racks, and their eyes regarded him soon as the water was smooth, they and/or extra hazardous Godowns of with evil interest; but it does not saw, as it seemed to thein, the whole 5th Apr,
The Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf appear that Mr. Fison was afraid, sen bottom among the weeds set 5th May. and Godown Co. Ltd., whence and/or or that he realised that he was in with eyes.
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"Ugly swine!" cried one of the No claims will be admitted after the fence Is to be ascribed to the limp men: "Why, there's dozena!”****
And forthwith the things began Goods have left the Godowns, and a ness of their attitudes. But he Goods remaining undelivered after
the 12th March, 1974, will be subject was horrified, of course, and into rise through the water, about
Mr. Flson has since" des-} = tensely excited and indignant at them, 7th Mar, to rent.
All claims against the steamer must such revolting creatures preying jcribed to the writer this startling 20th Mar.
be presented to the Undersigned on upon human flesh. He thought eruption out of the waving. laminaria or before the 201 March, 1984, or they had chanced upon a drowned meadows. To him it seemed to they. will not be recognised 9th Mar, comply with the General Bond-body. He shouted to them with occupy a considerable time, but it 24th Mar. ed Warehouse Regulations consignees the fdex of driving them off, and, is probable that really it was a
must have a Revenue Officer in attendanding they did not budge, cast affair of a few seconds only. For a ance when damaged dutiable goods about him, picked up a big rounded time nothing but eyes, and then he
329 examined.
Bong Kong, 3rd March, 1934.
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speaks of tentacles streaming out All broken, chafed, and damaged lump of rock, and flung it at one.
And then, slowly uncolling their and parting the weed fronds this Goode are to be left in the Gouws, where they will be examined on the 10th March, 1934, at 10 am. by tentacles, they all began moving way and that. Then these things, towards him creeping at first de growing larger, until at last the Mesara. Goddard & Douglas,
No Fire Insurance has been effect-¡iberately, and making a soft pur bottom was hidden by the Intercoll- ing forms, and the tips of tentacles Bills of Lading will be countersign. ring sound to each other.
In a moment Mr. Fison realised rose darkly here and there into the ad by, et
air above the swell of the wateri GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD., that he was in danger.”
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He shouted again, threw both his One came boldly to boots and started on, with a leap, the boat, and, clinging to this with forthwith Twenty yards off he three of its suckerset tentacles stopped and faced about, judging threw four others over the gun-wale, them slow, and behold!, the ten- as if with an intention either of tacles of their leader were already oversetting the boat or of clamber- pouring over the rocky ridge on ing into It. Mr. Fison at once which he had just been standing! caught up the boathook, and, fab- At that he shouted again, but this bing furiously at the soft tentacles time not threatening, but a cry of forced it to desist. dismay, and, began jumping, atrid- He was struck In the back and Ing, alipping, wading across the un- almost pitched overboard by the even expanse between him, and the boatman, who was using his oar to beach. The tall red cliffs seamed resist a similar attack on the other suddenly at a vast distance, and he side of the boat. But the tentacles saw, an though they were creatures on either side at once relaxed their In another world, two minute work hold at this, aid out of sight, and men engaged in se repair of the splashed into the water. ladder way, and little suspecting the We'd better get out of this," said To AUSTR race for life that was beginning be Mr. Fison, who was trembling "vio- low" them. At one time, he could
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