HOOK’S BODY FOUND
MAULED BY TIGER OR LEOPARD NO OFFICIAL REPORT Reed. Noon. RANGOON, Wednesday. Up to the present nothing is known la official circles regarding the findof Mr. Eric Hook’s body. LONDON, Wednesday. The “Daily Mail’s” Rangoon correspondent says that Burmese couriers, after many forced marches, wrought news of the finding of Hook’s “Day, terribly mauled, either by a tiger or a leopard. Although the body was little more than a skeleton, there l* to doubt of its identity. He was i°U6d naked. t . Tl iB expedition members wrapped the body in their ground-sheets and 10ak it to Prome for interment. The- searchers had a gruelling time, ®? nera *ly being waist-deep and even aest-deep in the water of raging streams. J l . lß recalled that Matthews left wki i. on the bank of a mountain river, h .“* ca rose > an< i apparently washed .j® awa y- Hook undoubtedly was then ih k cur ious coincidence is that drvK y was even tualiy left high and ImL . the receding torrent only a fur■Hn * rom where Matthews met the "•lagers.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1038, 31 July 1930, Page 11
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