KIDNAPPING EXTRAORDINARY.
The capture and destruction of tie infants of a histile tribe is an expedient common to all primitive warfare. It has remained for two European Powers in- this twentieth century to rosort to tho method with benevolent intentions. Franco and Portugal, says the London " Express," havo _ 'agreed to cooperate in their possessions in Guinea for the extermination of cannibals. During the recent'campaign, -winch resulted in tho victory ofltitt) Portuguese troops, some of the natives devoured tho bodies of thoso tribesmen who foil in battlo. It has not yet been discovered whotbor any Europeans were eaten. Instructions kavo'becn given to tho Portuguese punitive expedition to capture all the children belonging to' the cannibals, and to hand thorn over to irioro civilised tribes.
Mrs. Roosevelt and Queen Alexandra 'have united their efforts to stop tho uso of the so-called " aigrettes"—tho plumes of the white.herons. •
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 199, 16 May 1908, Page 11
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144KIDNAPPING EXTRAORDINARY. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 199, 16 May 1908, Page 11
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