RATS IN SENATE
FRIGHT FOR WATCHMAN.
On Monday, a friend in Warsaw tells me, the night watchman in the Pohsa Senate heard a noise in the cellars. He opened the door leading down to them, and was nearly swept off his feet by thousands of rats' (writes “Peterborough” in the London “Daily Telegraph” on January 7 last). These proceeded to occupy the whole ground floor of the' building. The fire brigade, which was summoned, besieged them and attacked them with gas. More than 5,000 were picked up dead. Many, however, escaped. The next appeal to the fire brigade came from the new French Embassy, which, though incomplete, is half furnished. By the time the brigade arrived the rats had eaten some very valuable chairs and sofas, the property of the French Republic, rounding off their meals with a Gobelin tapestry. The rats are thought to have eaten their way from a derelict building into the cellars of the Senate and to have ■retreated to the French Embassy along a newly-laid drain.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 February 1937, Page 4
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