LIONS LOOSE.
EXCITEMENT IN LEIPZIG.
PaSIC-STRICKEN CROWD,
(Received Oc.tober 21, 11.10 a.m.) LEIPZIG, October 20;
Eight! lions escaped from a travelling circus cage, which had collided with a tramcar. The crowd became panic-stricken. • One lion dashed 1 into an hotel and ascended a staircase. ; ;The police shot five and are hunting the other three.
ALL-NIGHT CHASE.
ONE BEAST CAUGHT ON TOP OF A MOTOR-'BUS.
(Received October 21, 11.10 a.m.) ; LEIPZIG, October 20. ' The lions .belonged to Barnum'p menagerie. The hunt con tinuod through'/.the: night.,, Six were killei after threia ;)Si^^'-'JBl»pfe;' : h'ad- b'een fired. The tamers.. captiired the seventh in an hotel, and the eighth on top of a. motor-'bus. The damage due to the hunt is estimated at £6OOO. # ""■'
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 22 October 1913, Page 5
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119LIONS LOOSE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 22 October 1913, Page 5
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