STARTLING STORY OF LION SHOOTING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 16, 4 September 1911, Page 8

STARTLING STORY OF L ION SHOOTING.

DUTCHMAN’S PLUCKY ACT IN EAST AFRICA. The remarkable feat of killing seven lions and wounding two others with ten shots fired within ten minutes is causing considerable excitement among spovtmen in British East Africa, says a “Central News” message from Mombasa. This was the achievement of a young Dutchman, Mr Postma, the son of a clergyman of the Transvaal Reformed Church, and who is only 21 years of age. Young Postma had been sent by Mr Russell Bowker, of Ivedong Valley, with a wagon and oxen into the Gnasno Nyiro district. .Ho was accompanied by two natives. At dawn Postma and the wagon readied a little stream known as Deep Dale. No sooner had the oxen been turned loose than they were attacked by nine lions. Postma jumped on to the wagon, caught up his rifle, and opened fire on the beasts, which had already killed one of the oxen. Less than ten minutes later . three lions and four lionesses lay dead on the ground, the nearest but fifteen yards away. The remaining two, badly wounded, had made away.