ROBBER ELEPHANTS DIE
POISONOUS CROP KATEN i CALCUTTA, December 18. A herd of 14 elephants lying dead in a cornfield was an astonishing sight witnessed by villagers at Madura, South India. During the night the herd had descended on the cornfield, which ' adjoins a mountain forest, and had devastated the crop, eating it all. This variety of corn is occasionally visited by a pestilence which poisons it, and apparently this had happened to the particular field of corn concerned, with the result that the elephants fed fatally. The authorities have taken possession of the dead animals, some of which arc fine specimens of tuskers.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 21049, 28 December 1933, Page 11
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