Spear-Fish erm a n Bites Shark
(Rec. 11 p.m.) HONIARA, May 6.
A Solomon Islander, Elison Sevo, of Ysabel Island, bit a large shark on the nose and head when it attacked him. Sevo was diving and spear-fishing. He had put a string through the gills of a spread fish and tied the string round his waist. He then speared a big fish and was holding it when a large shark attacked him and bit his leg and knee.
Sevo grabbed the shark, held it against his chest and bit it on the nose and head till the shark was half dead. Then he fainted and dropped the shark. Friends pulled him into a canoe and took him to the village dispensary, where his leg wounds were dressed. He is now recovering.
Rome Strike. —Italian postal and telegraph services will be paralysed for three days from midnight tonight when 100,000 Post Office employees go on strike for higher wages.—Rome, May 5.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28270, 7 May 1957, Page 14
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