Show didde iver battles ba ft flechs hudz use eh e h rn r N I 1 D 4 ah eilf v i Ls h desperate fight for life that was waged at bottom of cape town harbor MONSTER HACKED TO PIECES comrades use hatchets to free helpless man creature measures eleven wid half feet from tip to tip of tentacles cape ton S A arlie UK union castle alner Dun castle i istle collided home ilief ugo ago with tile hie harbor here heie dib lodging many of ill the enor enormous lOus blocks of concrete conci ete forming the ml fell into the bottom of tho the sea sa alt this point bt between tuen thirty mill ana forty deep ihu of the lie harbor board set to wok aik oik I 1 to iepala the dain aged pier SIMI recover the dislodged blocks by in III nil an easy busl one of hie file most experienced men inen enang d oil 11 the ahing operation was is JI baliner who w anul hit lind hit fifteen years gears experience ol of underwater work in vailous parts ot of the world orlu one day daiy palmer acut ent down in the ordinary rinse of his work voik and v wash us engaged in ili putting putt liin a 11 chain around it seven been ton of ton cioto when lie ile noticed it burlous in ions looking object protruding brinn arnn a cavity alti leow below the block the hie n balvi iari was MIS comparatively clem clear vending pending fumi wit I 1 palmer ilmer examined the object fell had attracted its his attell tion ile he was beginning to wonder what it cent be when without the slightest winning warning it began to move toward towal mon A huge tentacle shot out froin bilow below the stone stolle moved swiftly sideways und anil in nil all instant had seized ills leg in ili a grip 1 feelers grab him horrified the diver staggered brich back ward but us as lie did so another great fitt appeared appealed from under the liaison ry und mid alighted upon ills arm holding it helpless wildly the man inan struggled struggle to free himself blinci lf from froin those alio e awful string but in aln where the tiny slickers touched the naked linked flesh of ills his hand they stung and seared like nn an electric elec wire and lie felt himself be being 11 ig draw a slowly b but a t surely toward the dark liole hole under the stone stolle for a moment tile the unutterable lioi hor lor of ills position held him spell hound even its his brain seemed numbed then I 1 lien slowly with a gilding motion that binl ans horrible to behold the creature beneath ix IK alli the stolle began to emerge As it cattle came out palmer beheld with a shudder alie cold staring eyes cica tile parrot pin lot like beak of nn nil enormous octopus or 01 the tortured man strove to wrench himself free flee hut but the hie more lie struggled the tighter grew gren tin the grip gilp or of the sinuous tolls coils instinctively palmer hold kept one anti free front from the encircling tentacles ile he noticed mechanically lint the octopus had let go its hold of tile alie masonry and hold wrapped itself en direly around him drawn to the surface making a desperate effort to throw on oft the lie stupor of nausea and fear ablah benumbed ills his faculties facilities tile the diver i reached cached up ill ills free nun arm and pulled ills his signal cord with all ills his whereupon the inen above started to haul him blin up the octopus still clinging relentlessly to its prey ans drawn to the surface the horror of the men inen above when they beheld the liver diver emerge from tile the water in fit the loathsome embrace pin brace of the great be better imagined than described wholesome While some drugged dragged the now nil but unconscious rainier paliner up the ladder others ran for lint linte diets liets and knives and a fierce attack was ninde made upon the creature I 1 in spite of every onslaught however the quivering tentacles still clung obstinately stina tely to the liver diver and it was not until the creature had been almost hacked to pieces that the men were wera able to free their comrade and administer restoratives restora tives when the lead dead octopus was laid out on the pier it was seen to be of grant grent size it measured eleven and 11 half feet across from tentacle UP tip to tentacle tip |