SOLDIERS AS BIG GAME HUNTERS.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14540, 18 October 1917, Page 7

SOLDIERS AS BIG GAME HUNTERS.

The campaign in East Africa has presented many novel features, among those" being the big-game shooting enjoyed by some of the troops. In tho early days t>llo transport conditions were such that it was impossible, with any regularity, to supply the detached posts with supplies, and permission was to shoot-game in certain districts for provender.

Giraffe, although in normal times protected by .special license, used to blunder across and, getting their long necks entangled in the telegraph lines, tear up the posts and break wires, in-t-^rriiptir.g communications. Greatly to the. regret of all .sportsmen, tiie.so harmless animals had' to be .sacrificed to -the necessities of- war.

Lions, too ; although useiess a? tood, became a. menace'to' the safety of our a^nmalri and jnen, and these ako bocame victims.

Rhinoceros, buffalo," and elephant, resenting the intrusion of man into their '• domain, in blind fury wove constantly charging over patrols and" camps—and suffered accordingly.