TIGER AT SINGAPORE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22612, 28 December 1936, Page 6

TIGER AT SINGAPORE

WILD ANIMAL ON ISLAND INVASION OF NAVAL BASE [from our own correspondent] SINGAPORE, Dec. 10 Singapore's impregnable naval base las been invaded—by a tiger. The wild animal is believed to have swum across tl.j Johore Strait from the mainland to Singapore Island at the naval base. '.Although experienced big-game hunters have been tracking it, the tiger is still at large. Each night its roars near thatched Malay huts have been the signal for a continuous clatter of tin pans and family prayer gongs by the villagers to scare away the beast from the poultry pens and pigsties In Kelantan, one of the Unfederated Malay States, there have been three killings by tigers recently. Two Malays find a Chinese have been fatally wounded by different tigers. Meanwhile residents of Katong, one of Singapore's most fashionable localities, about'five miles from the city, have been startled by the discovery of more large pythons and a large crocodile. "There is a nice big snake in the garden," said a four-year-old hoy after he harL seen a 9ft. Gin. python at a boarding house at Katong. The huge reptile, apparently having recently feasted, was asleep coiled round the base of a casuarina tree near the seafront The little boy told his father and others of his discovery and the python was clubbed to death.