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Taranaki Daily News, 15 October 1921, Page 11

The London Daily Mail’s correspondent at Rome says that Toto, the largest African elephant in the local Zoo, savagely killed Dr. uanezza, who was operating on it for an abscess. Dr. Canezza had previously operated upon a big ourangoutang, which seemed to realise that the operation was beneficial. It quietly submitted, and lay motionless on a table. Dr. Canezza fully expected, the elephant to display similar intelligence, but the attendants held Toto’s head in chains. At the third incision it jerked its head, free. It dashed Dr. Canezza to the ground, and trampled upon him, break- ■ ing every rib. The elephant then lifted the body in its trunk, and beat it against ' the bars of its cage. Unable to reconcile himself with tin? ' fact that nine of his brothers, all officers i in the French army, had fallen during the ; war, Major Goschwing, of the French artillery, committed suicide under dra- | niatic circumstances. He hired a boat I on the River Daubes, steered it to the middle of the stream, stood up in the boat, and shot him=olf with an army i I revolver. |