TIGER LOOSE ON SHIP.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 51, Issue 261, 18 August 1931, Page 5

TIGER LOOSE ON SHIP.

SAILOR BADLY BITTEN.

OFFICERS SHOOT ANIMAL. LONDON, August 6. There was an exciting incident on the Norddeutseher-Lloyd steamer Lahn, when one of the sailors called and patted an animal which he thought was the ship's dog, and found that it was a. man-eating tiger. It chased him to the engine-room and tore his wrists to the bone, necessitating his going / to hospital at Marseilles. I The engineer on watch telephoned a warning to the chief engineer asking for instructions, thereby unconsciously emulating the Indian booking clerk, who telegraphed to his superior officer: "Tiger eating stationmaster; what shall I do?" . .. , The officers and crew or, the L.ann took revolvers* and began a tiger-hunt which ended in the death of the animaJ after it had savagely scratched the fourth officer. . . t While at large the tiger ate four oi the crew's pet monkeys; Its skin wil> be preserved as a memento. The animal was one of five tigershipped from Singapore for London One became sick and was sent ashore; another died; while the hero of the present story had escaped fronv its cage, when the Lahn was m the Mediterranean, before the adventure which ended in its death. The two survivors have been dispatched to their destination.