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Show r SHARKS. v ll Ono more affliction is ascribed to j, the war sharks. High prices, fading . t dyCH, f amiuo in drugs and many y othr wops havo been blamed upon the 'i war, but not until two years after the ( beginning of the conflict have the man-'J man-'J eating sharks be; en attributed to tho 's cataclysmic struggle Py a somewhat roundabout process tho theorizers have arrived at their cou-elusion. cou-elusion. A shortage of ships in tho western Atlantic has resulted from tho war. Tho sharks were kept in a fat and peaceful state for years by these vv ships, 'which dropped tons and tons of r-,r ood refuse overboard. Tho sharks fed Vion the refuse and were content. But ith tho disappearance of tho ships a j iod famine has come about in the oild of sharks. They stood it as long in '"J they could and then thoy declared ing ar. Naturally enough they declared l''1" . ar on man, tho selfish human who had, rented the famine, of J The man-eating sharks are not numer-i'f numer-i'f J its on tho Atlantic coast. They are mit roll known on the coasts of India and , 'j xequent tho J southern seas and tho i .up liddlo Atlantic. The species which ""ij "las been observed in other years i icar our Atlantic coasts is not of the r;lt inan-oating variety, but hunger might Cut! make him desperate and place him in mSivr$ that cspjsea saVtiges. In fact that 'ei -ni '10 t'100"3 bave come to ''ominitr They say that the gentle sharks jteryear have been transformed HOD" man-eaters by hunger. On the hand it is likely that the man- rs, finding little food in midoceau, o migrated to the regions nearer the bod v ; -sts in search of sustenance. Per-1'itnlu' Per-1'itnlu' pSj too, they have had unfortunate lieiu ' 'I,cr'onoes on fbe other side of the ( Iku ce;iu. where occasionally they must New .iave pushed their snouts against a Gor-j1? Gor-j1? nan or English mine and met with 1 -quite a shock. |