NOT SPORT.
PRINCE NOT-IMPRESSED. ELEPHANT'S DESPERATE STRUGGLES. MYSORE, Jan. 24. The Prince of Wales returned to Mjsore from the jungle camp at Karapur this afternoon. The keddah (elephant drive) operations on Sunday resulted in the rounding up of only a few of the 28 elephants which, for nearly a month past, have been ringed in a wide area 'by a regular army of beaters, fires being maintained by night. Amongst these. were recognised animals which had eluded capture in former drives. The spectacle, was not a particularly pleasing one, although by no means in human, as the animals are kindly treated all the time they are being secured. They generally struggle after entering the stockade till they drop with exhaustion and fright, emitting piteous cries, with great tears rolling from their eyes. The Prince, with his thoroughly British ideas of sport, did not linger longer than courtesy demanded. The scene of the camp was one of wild, luxuriant beauty, although the contrast of the electrically-lighted, tents, set amid the dense growth, faintly tinged by a touch of the glorious sunset, was one of strange incongruity.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15741, 4 February 1922, Page 6
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185NOT SPORT. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15741, 4 February 1922, Page 6
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