From the South China Morning Post this week in 1967
It wasn't a crocodile, but another wild beast was worrying villagers around Sha Tin. Something described variously as the Shing Mun Tiger or a wolf was blamed for raids on chicken farms.
A terrifying creature had first been sighted in July by So Kar-ling, 19, who claimed she had been 10 metres from a tiger-like beast with paws six inches in diameter.
Now in November, a suspect was captured in Tau Fun Shan. Using rope traps and a hunting dog, villager Shan Pui caught an animal that he said 'had eyes that burned bright, like two small lanterns in the dark, and which had a pink tongue like a European dog'. He was sure he had caught a wolf and was deeply disappointed when Hong Kong University experts said it was simply a wild dog, an Alsatian-chowchow cross with shaggy fur and white paws.
Miss So steadfastly refused to be convinced and denied she had been misled by shadows.
In an advertisement which may seem shocking today, a smoking golfer was shown lighting his friend's cigarette.
