HUGE WHITE WHALES MENACE FISHERMEN.
NANTES, France, December 8. A new terror to deep sea fishermen of Brittany has appeared in the form of an invasion of belugas, or white whales, twelve to eighteen feet long, which tear the nets to pieces. The national equipment bill provides for speed boats suitably armed to hunt them down, but these exist only on paper. The fishermen ask that they be supplied with machine guns and depth charges, but Minister of Marine Dumesnil observes that such measures would destroy the shoals of fish as well as the belugas. He suggests shotguns, which, if they would not do much harm to the belugas, at least would frighten them off.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19270, 6 January 1931, Page 4
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