TIGER FIGHT DRAMA
A thrilling story of an Englishman's desperate fight with a tiger was told in reports received at the London office of Messrs Steel Brothers and Company, of Fenchurch avenue, E.G., East India merchants. Mr P. V. Lovett-Campbell, of Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, who is employed in the Burmese forest service of this firm, set out from Maymyo with an expedition of five guns to shoot a tiger which had attacked a Burmese villager. The party found that the villager was dead, and they determined to trail the tiger through the jungle. Suddenly, from a bush 12 yards ahead, the tiger charged at Mr Lovett-Campbell with a terrific roar. He fired at point-blank range, but failed to stop the beast. There was no time for a second shot, but as the tiger sprang at him he crashed the barrel of his rifle down its throat. Man and beast went down together, the man underneath, and fighting for his life," stated the report. "As it lay on top of him everybody fired simultaneously . . . all happened at lightning speed . . . bared fangs, the struggle and then the killing of the beast. Afterwards the skin was found to be full of holes." The tiger weighed 3001 b. Mr Lovett-Campbell is recovering from claw wounds.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22609, 28 June 1935, Page 5
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