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HUNTING BY CAR AND 'PLANE.
FRENCH CRITICISM
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the desert antelope with the aid of the airplane.
French Nimrode who go a-busting that the chase on horseback is not to procure tresh meat by hunting with hypnotically glaring automo-less cruel than that in the automo bile in broad daylight. If the bile headlights, and pursue their makers of the hunting laws were feet winged prey with the feeter sincere in their desire to give wild aeroplane and the whirring devasta game a sporting chance, say these critics, man would long age have tion of its propeller may soon Tim
been constrained to hunt on foot, foul of the law in their ultra-modern with his dog left tied in his kennel, Only then, they contend, would wild life be on an equal basis with its enemies
enactment of the chase.
The tribunal of Saint Brieuc, in Brittany, has just condemned a Breton merchant and his friends for
One phase of the latter-day hunt has been the subject of considerable
Moreover, say those favourable to aviation as an accessory to the hunt, the aftplace has immeasur ably benefited the trapper whose workshop is a vast province, and whose domain can now be traversed in a few hours instead of requiring several months of hardship on snowshoes and dog-sleds. They are able "as a result of this enormous saving of time to lay their trap..
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automobiles to massacre at mid- night all manner of small game fas- cinated by the gleaming shafts of Hight. No penalty was exacted by the court, but the nocturnal hants- men were roundly censured by the judge for their unsportsman-like tactics.
consequent increase of their earn- ings is tremendous. It has beea pointed out, too, that in the north- era fringes of Newfoundland, well. above the 30th degree of latitude, aeroplanes are an important factor in the highly lucrative seal-hunting.
Keen, it intermittent, interest in the hunt by airplane, has led to varied criticisms of this exciting pastime. War veterans recall, that this sport was practiced with great zest by several of the famous French war aces. Jean Navarre, one of France's earliest military Aviation and hunting fans as well fliers, is mentioned as having ence have referred to the well-known tried to duplicate the right angle manner of hunting the "beluga."-- turn of a bird in fight in the tops species of killer-porpoise, by: heavy and rickety." parasol" type means of the airplane at Sables- of airplane, Thin dangerous man d'Olonne, in Brittany The "be muvre in the infant stage of avis-lugas," voracious devourets of tion resulted in the smashp of smaller fish, travel at a speed of: Navarre's machine, although the almost forty-five miles per hour, playful pilot himself escaped un- and can easily outdistance the fast- hurt.
The stand of the Breton tribunal has excited criticism and comment among Parisian merchants, many of whom regularly desert their shopa during the hunting season, to stalk game by night with the aid of powerful automobile spotlights.. Their prey, usually the rabbit, the squirrel, and occasionally the wild bour, are attracted irresistibly into the glare of the light. There they The experience of Marcel Doret, seem to become virtually hypno in an aviation training school at tized, and, without the mad aban- Chartres in 1916, was also recalled. don, of the moth which invariably This war pilot amused himself dur. buris itself to death" against a glowing his leisure hours as an instruc. ing lamp,they lose all sense of defense or direction, presenting an easy target" to the hunter.
tor by rigging up a sort of wire "chicken coop" on the radiator of his airplane, and succeeded in scar- Realizing that such suicidal pro- ing up numerous coveys of par- pensities exist in birds as well astridges by intrepid "ground-flying." insects, the Council-General of Cal- vados, in Normandy, proposed in 1096 measures to prevent the des truction of migratory birds by maritime light-houses. The blind- ing glare of the great light-stations on the French coast frequently at
tracted large flocks of these wan-
and impaling them on the front of his fuselage by the force of suction created by his whirring propeller.
est of the fishing vessels, whose crews have long watched in despair the depredations of these speedy killers in the ranks of their own pray which furnish them with a livelihood. Hunting the “beluga” with the airplane first took place when the French pilot, Cassigneul, swooped over a rollicking school, and created havoc with a specially constructed harpoon-gun Breton fishermen are now considering the hire of commercial pilots, with 'planes loaded with hand grenades and equipped with machine guns.
-Condemned in England.
Evidently, conclude the partisans Several countries. have recently of aerial bunting, certain phases of one record as opposing the use this innovation deserve more favour. of the airplane for the hunt. lo able legislative treatment than the derers by night, many of which few England, opinion is expressed that rigours of an unwritten code, de- this practice is contrary to all sport mand. Can one reproach Thoret, headlong to their death against the thick plate glass of the powerfuling ethics because of the crushing they exclaim, for having pursued an lamps, or fell victims to the light superiority it gives to man over eagle, or complain that Pierre defenseless animals. On the other Weiss, dashing commandant at Le house guards.
haad, an English Colonel remarked Bourget, should not disperse dark not long ago that, during the epide- | clouds of cawing crows whose rau- Various Parisian critics of exist-mic of cholera at Bagdad, the popu cous shrieks set a whole com- ent husting codes are of f the opinion i lace was highly contented to he able manity's gerves on edge r
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