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BIG GAME IN INDO-CHINA.
SUCCESS OF THE RECENT EXPEDITION CARRIED OUT BY CAPTAIN H. A, WHITE FOR CHICAGO FIELD MUSEUM.-
INTERVIEW WITH CAPT. WHITE IN SHANGHAI.
Capt. E. A White, the Big game hunter and collector of rare specimens of fauna for the Field Museum in Chicago, arrived in Shanghai a few days ago on his return trip from Indo-China, after having carried out a highly successful expedition in the Dar Jad and Lacs districts
"Remarkable success attended Cap-¡ Mois, however, are being concen tain White's trip. Accompanied by trated in Darlac, which is between two friends, who were shooting for Laos and Annam, by the French pleasure, Capt. White penetrated authorities to provide a stronghold." the high plateau region of Darlat, Little is known about the tribe but which abounds in a great variety what is known is intensely interest- of interesting fauna Here, asing. At one time they were the cording to Capt. White speaking slaves of the Chans, who were con with a representative of the North nected in dim times past with the China Daily News, the northern wonders of Angkor. There are fauna joins with distinctly tropical19,000,000 of these. Mois in Indo- groups and an interesting field is China. provided for collectors. Especially true is this of bird life.
other Among
live specimens taken were the Asiatic wild dog which it is hoped will be used for breeding purposes; several litters of beaver-rata; mongoose in three of four species; otter; eld dear; axis deer, a rare specimen; and several tine samples of pheasants, notably the August, the Miln Edwards, and the new Rhinhardt.
A Japanese liaison officer, just returned to Shanghai from the North, said that, from a military point of view, the Northern defences through Paoting flu could only be regarded a very weak by reason of the fact that they ran through open country. On the other hand, the Northern Army were over- whelmingly powerful in light. and heavy artillery and machine-guns, and their advantage in this respect more than made up for the weak- ness of their positions. Comparing the men, he was of the opinion that the Northerners in all respects were far better equipped than their op
Elephants abounded on the trip ponents, and the men of the two and several instances of charging divisions under the immediate com- elephants are related by Capt. mand of General Chang Hsueh white, to show some of the perilous Liang (the Young General") were
angles of this form of sport, far superior to the best in the
Eighteen elephants, were to have Southern army. Should the North-left Saigon last week for Germany ers command decide to hold their where they would be conditioned ground and receive the support of and eventually go to the United the best of the army, he felt sure States for zoological gardens and the South never would capture circuses. These were purchased by either Tientsin or Peking, but a Capt. White from a native, prince ball-hearted attempt would be of at 1,500 pisstres, or about 81,500 each. In Europe, he said, each Asked what would be Japan's would be worth £1,000 Fifteen pality, either in China or Man-natives would go with them on their churia, he said that no one outside travels.
Enormous Reptiles Captured. the Government could say. It was
Among the other live specimens the understanding in the army that
were 12 pythons, including the pura their only business was to protect black variety and five king cobras, their nationals, and it was presum one of the latter being 13 feet long, ed the same policy would be follow and the slatey-yellow colour of the species. One of the rock pythons ed even in Manchuria. The assump measured 27 feet long. These had tion was that, although the Japan-been fed before being shipped in eve, would not interiers between the their sanitary cases covered with double mesh chicken wire, and two parties, they would not hesitate would lie dormant for the next to disarm either Northerners or few months, as was their custom, year being sufficient Nationalists, if their actions were three times prejudicial to Japanese rights
10 use.
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Fengtion Sacc@5588. Mr. Rodney Gibert expresses the aame view in a telegram dated May 18th
Specimen's As Yet Unsecured.
A male and female group of gaur were killed for the museum, na well as a group of banting, including herd bull and female and calf. A habitat groups of water buffalo was also secured. A specia of swamp dear, hitherto believed to exist only in India was also found, and a habitat group of eld deer made other additions to the collection. The famed Schoenberg deer, the last specimen of which was obtain- ed by Dr. Hornaday, 25 years ago, stili eluded Capt. White as did the. unicorn rhinocerous. It is under- stood that Kermit Roosevelt ex- pects to come to Indo-China with- in the next year, and that he, too, will probably look for these diff cult specimens, although it is thought likely that the Schoenberg may be extinct.
Capt. White describes the hunt ing in Indo-China as far more in- teresting than that in Africa where for them to feed
gams abounds. more plentifully. The enormous reptiles had been The shooting of a gaur is more of captured by the native Mois, an a feat, ho feels, than would be in race akia the tracking of some of the game
to interesting Igorotea of the Philippine Islands Africa. A knowledge of conditions The method employed for captur in Indo-China is all important, be ang them was to set fire to the declares, and unless a hunter is brushwood where they hid, the himself an expert tracker or can Hames causing the cobras to take to get expert natives to track for him, No fighting is yet reported on the the nearest hole which is generally success is out of the question, for Tsin-Pu line where the defences at too small for them, so that a bit any of the more difficult game. Chinghsien and Machang are coauf their tail can be taken hold of by the natives who have meantime,
He states:
leading.
rainy will be spent in the district, still on the look-out for Field Museum specimens.
An Abyssinian Expedition. Capt. White will leave Shanghai sidered adequate. The fighting at clamped a forked stick over the on Tuesday (yesterday) to travel Wangtu below Pauting is restoring hole. The snake is drawn out saris Siberia to Paris, where he will far as his bead which is caught in confidence here, since Fengtien is the fork, and by means of other complete arrangements for a year's expedition into Abyssinia,, to Lake registering easy victories and cap bamboo sticks and holders the giant Rudolph Two dry seasons and one turing guns and supplies. The reptile is got safely into a cage.
The pythons, who carry no enemy forces are alternately des
poison, their dangerous qualities cribed in the Press as Shansi and being encompassed in their ability Kuominchun troops, which is mis to squeeze their victims to death, Actually they are units are captured off the trees in the of the former Third Kuominchun jungle, in an equally deft way by Army and other riffraff, whom Feng the natives. Yu Hsiang foisted on Yen Hri Shan and whom Yen Hai Shan is
In connection with the work of now delighted to push out of Bhansi these natives, Capt. White pointed against the Ankuochun gume. The uat the Darise was the district ro- Feagtien authorities do not believe served for the Mois. Ten conces going after, he declares, and a big- sons mainly in the charge of the game axpedition would be richly Dutch have recently brought the rewarded. North China Daily
The News. district inte prominenos.
that the First Kuominchua Army and the better Shansi units are sup porting these forces.
Japanese Desire For Fangtien
Retreat,
For several days past the Japan.
A Little Knowa Tribe,
In about two years, Capt. White. hopes to return to China, where, conditions warranting, an expedi tion will be undertaken into Bre chuan which is described by him as the most interesting section yet re- maining unexplored in Asia. There the golden fleeced monkey and the pander alone are worth
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The Compagnie de Commerce & paganda, designed to make the An- kuochun withdrawal to Manchuria
da Navigation d'Extrême-Orient in seem inevitable. This is too ub
their report on the rice market vious, especially in Tientsin, to be
dated Saigon, May 16th, state: There is practically no change in even clever. Today's ultimatum, prohibiting the movement of armed
BHANGHAI, May 19th. our market since our last report.
As far as rice Nos. 1 and 2 are forces through Shambaikwan is also The Nanking Government, acting bewildering The CORBERANS of on the instigation of the Kiangsu concerned, the position continues Lagation opinion now is that the Opium Suppressión Bureau, who rather weak, but the tendency for purpose of the Japanese program appear to have been working in by-products: rice meal and broken, me is twofold: first, to emphasize conjunction with the Customs is still strong on account of the the supposed immmence of the officials, has issued instructions small volume of business passing Southern occupation of Peking, as that the opium which is confiscated in rice for delivery during next warrant for precautionary military monthly by the Chinese Maritime month."
measures here; secondly, to prompt. Customs shall no longer be burned The total amount of rice export the Fangtion withdrawal before at the kiln in Pootung, but thated from January 1st to April 30th. Bhanhaiwan is closed, so that the it is to be delivered to the Bureau 1929, is 633,861.400 tons against Nationalists shaft control all China to be disposed of as it sees fit. 838 339.686 ton in 1927.
the We quote to day white Saigon report appeared in within the Wall, when Japan is This ready to dictate terms that will Crystal Tinies, & Chinese paper rice No. 1 25 per cent. brokens guarantee the cessation of anti-which appears irregularly. foreign nonsense and future respect According to the report, the Suppression for treatie
Awam Kiangau Opium The local Japanese garrison are Bureau has consulted with the erecting seroplane hangars on Ministry of Finance, both parties the Legation Quarter glacis and having agreed that, subject to the evacuating women to make room approval of the Nanking Cabinet, for reinforcements and local males, the comer organization, who have the drug is to be handed over to mostly reservistsko
been instructed, it is understood. to utilize the contraband in the preparation of anti-opium med eines The usual rewards are to be paid by the Bureau.
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