COLLAPSE OF FLATS
CAT’S SCRATCHING. LEADS TO LUCKY DISCOVERY. (Received Thursday, 9.10 a.m.) LYONS, AVednesday. In the belief that it was impossible that there should be more ' survivors.artillery shelled to demolish the dangerous tottering walls in the landslide area. The military were surprised later by a cat’s frantic scratching. They dug on the spot and found the cat’s owner unconscious and an eight-year-old girl beneath a bed where- they had ’’-been" •' imprisoned for three- -days. The girl died on the way to the hospital.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 12 May 1932, Page 5
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