GRIPPED BY AN OCTOPUS.
YOUNG WOMAN'S ORDEAL. (Pkr Press Association^) WELLINGTON, March 28. A young lady, while bathing near the Ivaraka Bay wharf, in knee-deep water, found an octopus coiling its tentacles round her leg. She tried to shake it off’, and then fell forward on her knees, and, clawing tho sand with energy born of terror, managed to drag the lisii ashore, where- a youth just arrived in response to the girl’s cries and killed »t w;th ,a knife. The octopus measured six feet from tip to tip of the tentacles. The young woman is suffering considerably from shock.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16694, 28 March 1922, Page 7
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