N.S.W. SHARK TRAGEDY
GIRL REFUGEE ATTACKED
SYDNEY, Dec. 27,
A shark attacked and killed a 16-year-old girl, Denise Burch, in water only knee deep at Bantry Bay, Sydney, yesterday. The girl, who is a refugee from Hongkong and whose father and brother are prisoners of war there, was wading with other members of a picnic party when a shark seized her by the leg and i dragged her under water.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 306, 28 December 1942, Page 3
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