LIONS IN BRITISH TREN

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 161, 31 March 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

LIONS IN BRITISH TREN

RAID OX OUTPOST'S LIVE F SUPPLY. The difficulties of our fighting in Africa urc illustrntod by tlio fc nig account of an incident wliicl curred at a British post on the man East Africa frontier, given Renter coi respondent. Lions with great daring got ii kraal containing animals for fooi the garrison, which was very ne; one of the British pickets. The succeeded in killing forty sheep goats. Next evening a gun was set, ai seven o'clock the I ons again appe The gun nn,; heard to go off. a full-grown ctili was found dead. A the gun was charged, although it not likely that the lions would r< that night. They did come back, ever, and tlrs time got tiic rcma: of their prey in the kraal. On the following night, a trap in<; been sot, a number of of) watched in the trenches. Three-t tors of an hour later a idiot rang As nothing happened the watch kept up till after midnight. Next 11 ing a fine big lioness was found nr yards away. One of the officers, it found, thinking lie saw a lion, filed, and the animal, with a sf had landed on the top of the tr itself. Luckily this was strong.