ATTACKED BY SHARK.
SOULLER’B NARROW EBCAPE. STERN OF OUTRIGGER BITTEN. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tei. Copyright (Received Feb. 20, 11 a.m.) BRISBANE, Feb. 20. While the State sculling champion. C. E. Slaughter, was training in a sculling outrigger on the Brisbane River a 10ft. shark savagely attacked the stern of the frail craft, which was filled with water by the time Slaughter reached the bank. When th© outrigger was examined there were more than a dozen teeth marks on either side of the stren. which was splintered for a distance of four feet.
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19815, 20 February 1936, Page 7
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93ATTACKED BY SHARK. Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19815, 20 February 1936, Page 7
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