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Show MAN-EATING TIGERS AND WILD ELEPHANTS DANGEROUS Washington. March 13. Man-eating tigers and wild elephants, to whose ferocity thousands have paid the penalty pen-alty of death in British India, lately have become so dangerous that they have proved tho chief destroyers of the beautiful forests of that country, according to American Consul General William H. Michael of Calcutta, Moreover, the extinction of these wild beasts has become a' problem of the goernment officials. Heavy rewards re-wards aro paid for the destruction of tho tigers but the elephants aro under the protecting wing of the government gov-ernment and aro thereby shielded from harm. |