FIGHT WITH A TIGER.
A thrilling story of an Englishman's desperate fight with a tiger has been told. Mr. P. V. Lovett-Campbell. of Leighton Blizzard, Bedfordshire, who is employed in the Burmese forest service, left Maymyo with an expedition of five "guns" to shoot a tiger which had attacked a Burmese villager. The party, finding that the villager was dead, determined to trail the tiger through the jungle. Suddenly, from a bush 12 yards ahead, the tiger charged at Mr. Lovett-Campbell with a terrific roar. He fired at point-blank range, but failed to stop the beast. There was no time for a second shot, but as the tiger sprang at him he crashed the barrel of his rifle down its throat. "Man.and beast went down together, the man underneath, and fighting for his life," state the reports. "As it lay on top of him everybody fired simultaneously ... all happened at lightning speed . . . bared fangs, the struggle, and then the killing of the beas .. Afterwards the skin was found to be full of holes." The tiger wejghed 3001b.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 180, 1 August 1935, Page 5
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