PLUCKY VILLAGERS
MAULED BY LEOPARD
FIGHT WITH BARE FISTS
(Received February 28, 11 a.m.)
CALCUTTA, February 27.' The remarkable gallantry of Indian villagers in their continual fight again/it the ravages of 'wild.beasts was illustrated when five villagers were taken to hospital at Calcutta mauled by a leopard, for whom they lay in. wait and attacked only with bare fists. The leopard escaped, and returned to. tho business of cattle-stealing. A Tillagers frequently fight marauding tigers.with sticks.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 50, 28 February 1934, Page 9
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