Mass Harikiri By Whales
O Received Fridav, 10.50 p.m. NEW YORK, Oct. 8. Forty-four small whales swam in' from the ocean today and del(berately beached themselves at Orescent Beach, Florida, in an apparent mass suicide. Most of the whales, which ranged from 7ft to 14ft, died quickly as the rough surf rolled them over in the sand. Observers tried to drag back to the water the few remaining alive. Marine life experts said that several times in the past whales had beached themselves along the Florida coast in an unexplained harikiri fashion. When towed to the water they swam head: long to the shoro again,
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Chronicle (Levin), 9 October 1948, Page 5
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