BATHER'S EXPERIENCE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 17 October 1921, Page 5

BATHER'S EXPERIENCE

ATTACKED BY A FISH

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LONDON, Oct, 15. Miss Shallis, while bathing in the J? rensham ponds, Surrey, had a narrow escape from death. A thirty-pound j>:.kc (a fish common to fresh water in England) seized her leg, and the more the terrified girl struggled the tighter the pike's jaws closed. Exhausted with pain, the girl sank, but fortunately other bathers were attracted by her cries and came to the rescue, and forced the p:ke to relinquish its hold. The leg was badly lacerated. v 6