BLOT ON SPORT.
HUNTING BY MOTOR
(BT CHIJt—JEBSS ASSOCIATION —COPJRIQHT.) (StDircx "Su*" Seevici.) LONDON, May 31. Sir Francis Now ton, of Rhodesia, speaking at a Shikari Club banquet, said that for every animal delivered to .Europe to fill zoological societies' contracts at least 100 mothers, during the breeding season, were mercilessly hounded over the veldt, mutilated, and killed. It was the worst blot on British science and sport. Lord Lonsdale, chairman, promised to intervene. He stigmatised tiie American method of motoring at night time after animals, which wero bewildered and crippled in their mad rush from the blinding headlights before they were shot. It was the most unfair and cruel pursuit conceivably.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18397, 2 June 1925, Page 9
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