THE KING IN INDIA.
SHOOTS 21 TIGERS. By Telegraph—Press Aesociation-Copjrieh) Calcutta, January 1. ' Their Majesties the King and Queen were received by the leading officials-and citizens of Bengal in a great amphitheatre. A huge crowd lined the route, including 5000 veiled women, who were seated in a pavilion screened off with muslin. The "bag" secured at Nepal consisted of eighteen rhinoceroses, four bears, thirty-nine tigers, of which number tho King shot twenty-four tigers. On one occasion his Majesty secured a tiger and a bear with the right and loft barrels.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1327, 3 January 1912, Page 5
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90THE KING IN INDIA. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1327, 3 January 1912, Page 5
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