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TEN FOOT CROCODILE LIVES OVER A.R.P. SHELTER When —and if—London gets its next air-raid warning, 120 people are going to share a shelter with 12 crocodiles, alligators, lizards and snakes over the top of them. The shelter is beneath the reptile house at the London Zoo. It is placarded "For 120 persons"—but there is no mention of the extra occupants who might find their way downstairs if concussion shattered the show cases and cages. A Daily Mail representative telephoned the Zoc and tok 1 an official of the fear of local residents. Said the official: "There are only little crocodiles left. Wouldn't hurt anybod\ r ."' Yet there is one. ten-footer still there—and several six-footers. When war broke out, all poisonous snakes and insects at the zoo were destroyed. Dangerous animals were painlessly put to death or evacuated to safer quarters in the country. But the ten-footer's still there.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 135, 13 March 1940, Page 2
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150PLEASANT THOUGHT Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 135, 13 March 1940, Page 2
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