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Woodville Examiner, Volume XXV, Issue 4454, 14 January 1910, Page 4

A particularly shocking case < of cruelty to birds—this being nothing more or less than tho blinding of chaffinches with a red-hot needle—was heard at tho Lambeth Police Coui't recently. The Inspector for the prevention of cruelty to animals said that the blinding of chaffinches was a regular trade, the eyes being destroyed with the object of making tho birds sing better. Tho practice, declared Mr Polhill, had been going on for a great many years, but the society had hitherto been unable to bring the offenders to account owing to the secrecy with which they worked. Great skill was needed to blind the birds, because tho men did not wish to destroy the eyeballs. The birds adapted themselves to their blind state in a wonderful way. They fed and found their water, and jumped about their cages as if they had their sight. Collins, the defendant, received three months’ imprisonment. At Aldershot recently, the Army obstacle race was the occasion of an extraordinary athletic feat on the part time in this event, won the challenge of the Ist Royal Irish Fusiliers (says tho Standard), who, for the second shield which was presented by the Duke of Connaught in 1897 to induce a high standard of physical fitness among tho troops. Each team consisted of 100 private.",, four sergeants, and two officers, nn-J the winning team covered the mile of broken country, which was intersected by watercourses, ditches, a ravine, an Bft wall, rail jumps, and a redoubt, in 7min 55 l-stli sec. For so many men to cover tho distance in that time would be creditable if they were clad in ordinary clothes, but as they had to run in field service uniform and carry rifle and bayonet, the feat was wonderful. The standard time for tho course was 9min, and this was exceeded by only two of tho seven teams which competed. It stands to the credit of tho 742 competitors that only nine of that number fell out by the way.

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