200 CAPTURED DOGS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 176, 2 August 1910, Page 2

200 CAPTURED DOGS.

Two thousand of the street dogs of Constantinople have been seized in the streets and placed in a dozen pens between the two inner walls of the city near the Top-Kapou Gate. The captives, however, have made little perceptible difference to the number of dogs still at large, whicK are esti-

mated at 60,000. The dogs in the • pens scramble for the food thrown to - .them, and the weakest go to the wall. Some of them are dead, but no - attempt is made to remove their bodies or to clean the pens. So bad . is the condition of affairs, that poor Turkish families living in the neighbourhood, although not remarkable - themselves for cleanliness, have asked the authorities to pay the cost of their removal to 6ome other district.