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SEPTEMBER 8, TUESDAY,
KILL
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KILLED
by John F. Richmond
MR. J. F. RICHMOND, the author of this article, is attached to the Socony-Vacuum Corporation in Hongkong, and recently left the Colony on leave to hunt big game in the wilds of Canada. Mr. Richmond is a big-game hunter of considerable note, and has accompanied several expeditions.
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When Warner Bros; who gave talking pletures to the world, an- and silence. The coolies had carried entured in silence. One by one the nounced that they had persuaded Max Reinhardt to produce all of the runs with them. Sap daming brands dampened and fick Prof. use the mother elephant-7 Fall- cred out and the head trocken ure Shakespeare's greatest comedy. "A que, fortunately, has at least one rowed my lamp again to Bght the
logs an Midsummer Night's Dream," they blessing: it takes the jump not only way around and over
ut of muscles hit out of nerves as atunps, holes and rocks. The two-declared that the resultant, picture would be the finest ever ilmed.
well,
This article originally appeared in the maga- stepping in holes and zine "Sport Afield," to which acknowledgments Finally, just before reach little elephant!
With the rain settled down to a is made.
around
It WHIM
be
114
we were.
There
wheeled contraption in which The coolics returned and we start rode pitched and rolled like a ship that this promise has been futni.
and the sudden Jolts were The Jungle is po place at sea
everyone who has seen the again. for travellers after dark; tripping terrilig; ha a distraction the bylearted, ard falling we struggled through the behind pressed the close in the lark- gorgeously fantastic production at to the King's Theatre agrees. The film thickets, bumping up shins and ness and continually threatened
continually impale us on its tongue. And from is a revelation of the possibilities of of the motion pictures. Here is art in its by Thorny vinek and the rear came the wailing
Anest sense: Here is the sheer beauty of fnotusy, where Imagina in the carts, we hind to wade across
is entertainment, two crepk. The cart drivers had strady pour that continued through tim has its fullest play. Yet here for all. the torches daring brightly and we pro- out the night, we reached the motor too, And was followed by amaturely benved sighs of relief. At ear at 10 o'clock and the little che down-to-earth, side spliting humour DRIVES by uncontrollable fear I passed of
tried to as if he was in as big a harry for and spectators pause for a moment at the ted for cover and simultaneous. reuetion in the form of violent per sight and smell of the elephant the phant, unaidest, climbed into the back of the "Dream" has been retained
With three in their laughter to thrill The sweat rolled in bullocks went wild ly with gaining it came the impulse: spiration.
and natives to hold him and the guns dram or marvel at the beauty of Stop! #de! Don't move! If you streams and Herally saturated every stampede, renring and snorting, bel chow
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catch you! I froze in my tracks the same snaked rendition.
matchs !! and after a moment, not having been DHOTOGRAPHS were takes and frenzy of fear ambo proceeded to of knowing that the events of the especially arranged for this produc- previous squealing and day had been as exciting and unexion by the famous Viennese com- 4,000 12th Sept. Bombay & Karachi only.
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was full
under Pietri's expert directions. By ed and yelled!
Reinhardt, genius of the longed the day one of those adventures, clustra could ther
a new page in the sounds of screaming, trumpeting the time this work was finished it dumbo
to exper stage, has written or towed which all hunters hope elephants crashing and milling about was o'clock am toward the end aboard one of the arts
and coolies and behind one
had to tre ence--provided they live through it the history of motion pictures, The in the thickels; but by the time an elephant began to scream
That settled. to tell the tale. And for good mea- great producer had an equally greut had five cartridges in the Winches, trumpet ngale in the direction saken tolhoff to least him,
So, when Pistri and I climbed into the lead- sure we had captured and brought east with which to work. tor again the uproar hnd begun to by the wounded beasts. draw off to one side. The reloaded the trophies had been secured.
tail Little Jumbo alone had made as the leading mummers, who stage trek to the motorcar, File restored my confidence but not started straight for the noise Ling cart and braced ourselves for the into camp a baby elephant 7 inches are James Cagney and Joe E. Brown the clarity of my mental processes, minister the death shot to the rug- And then it rained. a deluge of the day memorable because he ranks a play tor the wedding ceremony of over the Duke of Athens and his Am- bucketfulls. Anong the smallest elephants
Lost in the wood As we approached the icewater falling in
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Unique All are excellent. dances in which hundreds of heau- tiful girls take part were staged and directed
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ing beast.
on the underbrush; and then thought gerous finale.
that
mitc
First,
}
resumed thair what Linc
th
and consideration
Owing to the 12 hour dny of the, sway-slowly.
tropies it was now late afternoon! was it? I was so surprised to find and the jungle intercepted the slant-
one ink rays of the descending sun s minute bad elapsed since I fired the that the gloom of approaching even- first shot that I found myself listen- ing was alrently noticeable. Picking ing to the ticking of my watch.
our way through the maze of brush, with two or vines, lamboes, palins, giant trees The guide and 1 three trackers hurried on along the and fallen logs
we approached the bloody trail for perhaps 200 yards, naise slowly and carefully. The up- the jungle ahead of us echoing with roar was incredibly terrifying: con- the terrible screams of erashing of tinuous, unceasing screams and tre.. elephants. Then in a twinkling the mendous roars vibrated the very at:
and there mosphere and at times deep, threaty uproar suddenly ceased! was absolute silence. We stopped. growls added a strangy note, Sure
Elephant bad, mauvais, danger, ly the elephant must be in its last ous, quiet very bad," Pjetri said and throes and a tiger is, standing by went through a pantomime of stand- waiting for the last gasp before ing quietly behind a bush and sud- commencing to feed on the carcass! denly charging.
If it wasn't so thick a man could! chance! a little and have a We waited and listened, then fell soo into a whispered discussion of what With the afternoon's hair-raising ex- It looked like and becurred which was not at all periences still fresh complete or clear because of pur fools asking for trouble, and it re-
and difficulties
finally quired a ferrely conscious effort to Jangunge
control stendy and started back to find the first elephant remain
miy
the rescue
and verify that he had been killed. nerves. Suddenly, 15 feet away, we Pietri hnd fired two shots, myself saw the elephant, trunk upratset, five, and the head tracker one shot screaming like a crazy locomotive, with a shotgun loaded with lethal and running straight for us!
"Ba-beel" Pietri shricked. balls. This shot had been fired by
Dropping his rifle on the ground. the head tracker, in hiding with the
and seized the other coolies so close that he could he dashed forward see me shooting and unaware of beast by the tail as it turned round their proximity, at an elephant that had desperately tried to escapel passed him and charged me on the Dashing up I grabbed the elephant!
and joined in the un- side or from behind. I can remen by one ear ber hearing the shotgun but carinol earthly yells for the coolles to come But I didn't drop my place this shot in the sequence of and help. events. Pietri was surprised that gun! We had captured a baby ele had fired at second elephant and plant and, as the shrieks, screames, thought it must have been the same roars and yells rose to the high- In the time wounded by the tracker; est heights of bedlam my overwork- apparently he accounted for all of ed nervous system could hear mother my shots as having been fired at elephants charging to the first elephant as he, too, had from every direction. Up came the been distracted from the first beast colies, yelling and laughing to see, by the appearance of a second ele- Pietri being towed round in a circle phant also but in another direction and plowing up the earth with his from my second antagonist. Many heels while hung onto the ear and details of the encounter were never steered, and in a frice they cut some explained or reconciled to my satis vines and the little fellow faction owing to the limitation of securely fastened.
Obviously this baby elephant was speech imposed by the guide's Inck of English and my own worse know the reason for our having been
that it re-i charged so desperately ledge of French. - We left the trail we had been quired gunfire to kill or turn three following and, in heading straight different beasts, the first of which! for the scene of the shooting, dis- charged even before a shot was fir- covered another trail also spattered el. This reflection under the scream. as an exceedingly with blood. This surprised and up- ing infant om
and he dangerous addition to our party and set the guide considerably went on the alert instantly, con- I had no desire to godfather an ele
But Pletri. wanted inually repeating the word "danger- phant anyhow.. vus" as we cast about and examin- him and us, the Bttle fellow became ed the signs. This trail praved that comparatively enim and quiet after two elephants had been wounded and struggling vainly for a few minutes
to take him back also coincided with my vague idea we decided
WAN
to
turn.
of the direction taken by my second camp. Recognizing the fact that elephant. Satisfied that this wound- escape was impossible Jumbo accept- ebenst also had run some distance id the situation with common sense and was not in the immediate vicin- and proceeded immediately to make ity we resumed our search. A few our better acquaintance by smelling minutes Inter 1 spied a great grey and butting each one in pile, the first elephant lying, stone Shortly we headed for camp as the, dend with his hend hard' agüinst a day was nearly dons and, with a big tree.
around his neck, vine loosely tied The beast was a big male men- the little dephant followed like a and caused very. on a leash suring 9 feet 10 inches at the dog shoulder and had been killed by five little trouble other than a few ob bullets as already explained. Pietri streperous moments and the annoy. over ance of his everlasting screaming estimated the animals oge 100 years.
We located the emply and rouring which increased notice- cartridge cases and found that the ably after it became dark.
MIE Inst glow of sunset faded
carcass luy 15 yards from where we
However, the Tandinky blackness w
course.
บ
hand been shaoling. huge feet hud trumpled the ground stumbled onward uncertain of our to within five short paces of Pletri's
The narrow beam of light position and seven of mine. Pro from the hunting lamp atrapped on Jesting the length of the head and my hond assisted my own stens very frunk beyond the foot-prints made considerably but the others had a iL apparent that the elephant had hard time. Finally we entered charged almost within louching dis- glade from which a few stars could tunce of Pietri's rifle barrel before be seen shining through flying clouch turning--entirely too close for com- and bearings were obtained from the fort. Pietri felt that my warning crescent moon in the west. and first two shots had saved him head tracker borrowed my lamp and on the nativer fanned-out into the from being killed by surprise: my part I felt that he had more jungle on one side searching for than returned the davour when my landmark. Left to ourselves, Pietri gun fammed as his shots had ac and I sat down wearly on the grass pally turned the elephant. We and defended ourselves the best wo shook hands,
could from the screaming elephant.
The
As the coollen cleared the brush Even a baby one is uncomfortably no pfaluren would be taken, the nerv heavy when he tries to stand on en Lanston and intense excitement your lap. All around was blackness
THE END.
MOM
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