PLAGUE OF MONKEYS
Certain parts of Delhi have been .suffering from it plague of monkeys. The only method that has hc n n tried of getting rid of the pests is to trap them and send them off by rail to some distant, part on the banks of a river. But. like eats, they find their way back again, and the authorities have paid the trappers tn vain. The idea of shooting or killing the monkeys is. of course, quite repugnant to Hindu sentiment, which, however, does not go so fur as to object, to them being trapped, -beaten or frightened. In the most sacred cities such as Benares or Puri. Hindu shopkeepers delight in baiting a monkey caught in the act of thieving. Sometimes a captured monkey is put in a bag and doused in a tank amid the cheers of the crowd, but if is <ilways set at liberty hi tlic ?n<l. tar no iTin.’lu is prepared to have its death cm his r.'inscipm"-.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 36, 6 November 1933, Page 3
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166PLAGUE OF MONKEYS Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 36, 6 November 1933, Page 3
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