1931-08-04 — Page 7

TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1931.

NATIONAL PARKS FOR AFRICA

Man's Wanton Waste and Carnage. NEED FOR PRESERVING WİLD LIFE,

waste.

THE CHINA MAIL.

ZITA'S NEW FIGHT FOR HER SON.

Austro-Hungarian Scheming,

ARCHDUKE OTTO..

RIGHTS OF THE UNBORN

Woman's Plea for a Sterilisation Measure.

UNFIT PARENTS.

DARTMOOR SHEPHERD RECALLED.

Man Championed by Mr. Lloyd George. THIEF'S NOTORIETY.

It, was as the result of an incident Commons more

Davies, the Dartmoor Shepherd,"

The following article is by Majorj have them near him. He quite na-

Are secret forces working for

"We must think of the rights in the House of R. W. G. Hingston and appeared in urally sees that they are driven the political reunion by means of of the unborn. It is up to us than twenty years ago that David The Listener. As leader and. na-

from the neighbourhood. fas cultivation spreads-and it is a tria and Hungary, the severed tow. children to come to homes achieved a notoriety unequalled by,

Hapsburg restoration of Aus- women to see that we do not al Hence, turalist to expeditions in South ways spreading the wild life of the members of a once powerful em- where they might be brought up America, Asia, the Arctic and continent is retreating before It

pire?

by defective parents.”.

any other petty thief. He, had Africa, Major Hingston has had into the areas that still remain events of late has once again cast National Council of Women's con- theft for which he had been many A significant sequence of This plea was voiced at the long life in prison, and the form of epent a considerable portion of a ample opportunity to see the ray-

duke Otto, son of the last Haps by Mrs. Paton, of Grandholm, mean one of robbing Church offer- he shadows of the young Archference, at Aberdeen, recently.times convicted was the peculiarly ages made by man

among the

burg, over the heart of Europe, during a discussion on the segretory boxes. wild animals of the world.","

writes a Daily Express Corres gation and sterilisation of men- But though Davica did not de- The wild life of Afrien is the

pondent.

tally defective people. most wonderful in the world. It includes such remarkable and im pressive types as the elephant,

might be prevented."

al

an habitual criminal of a man, who had in him the possibility of better things.

More important still is the arch exterminator, namely, trade in the products of wild life. It is greed and profit that brings anal extinc- tion. Cultivation presses the wild, life further into the wilderness, but

What has happened?

A resolution was carried call-serve all the sympathy which was trade follows it there relentlessly Zita, who has worked indefatig-quiry into the causation of men-

Otto's mother, the ex-Empress ing for a royal commission of in- called forth when Mr. Lloyd George and without limit; the cauldrons of bly for the restoration of her tal deficiency

and Mr. Winston Churchill first be hinocoros, hippopotamus, giraffe, and the animals are pursued into arrived the other day at the Villa and sterilisation, by which it was one. In which the law had made industry cry aloud for everything, sen to the throne of his fathers, measures, including segregation widespread feeling that his case. and into any came interested in him, there was gorilla, okapi, and lion. One might the remotest fasteneases and anni- Pianore, in Italy, only ten miles think that man would take serious hilated to the last individuals. steps in order to preserve this uni-minated the guagga, and swept the Italy.

It was trade in skins that exter Summer residence of the King of distant from San Rossore, the

No Wait-and-See." que heritage. that he would re- animal herds from South Africa; it

Now that Davies is dead, his life Mrs. Paton supported gard it like those priceless monu- was trade in feathers that obliter

Events followed quickly. meats and buildings which must be ated the great auk from the Atlan-

amendment, which was defeated,The

has been written by Mr. A. Scriven Zita is received by the Pope. protected from death and decay.tic, trade in horn that eradicated Tribuna

to include a demand for such Years in Prison (Ainscow, 78. ed.), Dartmoor Shepherd: 50 The Italian newspaper, But, unfortunately, he has not view the rhinocreros from the jungles of plece publishes a number of voluntary sterilisation in

La changes in the law meanwhile as and it is a book which will inspire ---Mussolini's ed it in that light, or, at any Murma, trade in oil that swept the articles on the desirability of a cast of persons liable to transmit the book Mr. Scriven relates the mouth may be necessary to legalise criminal law and prison reformers rate, only to such a degree as can great whale from the Arctic and is political union between Austria sterious mental or physical de incident which probably provides the to renewed efforts. Quite early in lead to its very imperfect preserva-to-day sweeping them out of the Anand Hungary as a substitute for fects. tion:

At present his aim is to wipe out doubted truth that trade in any of customs union.

tarctic. It is a maxim of un- the proposed Austro-German that fauna. If he does not actual- the products of animal life means

the key to Davies's life of crime.. "I am not in favour of a wait- and-see' policy," said Mrs. Paton.a watch, and before he was sen- He had been convicted of stealing express that intention, at least butchery and the ultimate extinc- Count Esterhazy, the Hungar into the world at a greater rate

Royalist Support.

"Babies are meanwhile pouring tenced it was revealed that he was he behaves as if exermination was tion of that life. his object. Nor has he been' al-

ian Royalist leader, unfolds a than we can support, but meny

A ticket-of leave man.. together unsuccessful. In 1800 he

scheme for Austro-Hungarian people who want to be sterilised obliterated the great blaubuck, a See it going on in Africa to-day. unity under Hapsburg rule at a are seeking for it, and cannot get large antelope which inhabited There is exported annually from the great meeting of Monarchists in it done. Cape Colony; in 1858 he extermin- Belgian Congo about 300 tons of

Hungary. ated the quagga, a svecics of wild ivory which represents a slaughter

Austrian Royalists voice their 0.58 whose countless herds once of 13,000 elephants. There is ex-

support of the scheme. darkened

Hungarian Royalists, in order

has reduced the white rhinoceros, which in our lifetime covered half a continent, to about 200 indivi.

The Traffle in Quackery.

£47,000,

B

This was more than enough for the Bench," writes Mr. Scriven,

"If the prisoner had had seven

the care of defectives is like a did not arise in their minds of The outpouring of money on years already, he must have county council putting, an excel-making the punishment fit the lent ambulance and hospital

heavier sentence now. The question

speaking, a prisoner had, previously been beaten with whips, he must next be chastised with scorpions.

the plains of Southported annually from Tanganyika. to extend their influence among equipment at the foot of a pre/crime. In those days, the judg. Africa; in 1910 he blotted out a Kenya and Uganda a mountain of the middle classes, make the fcipice, whereas many lives might ment of Rehoboam was exalted on race of Burchell's zebra; 'ta-day he ivory of an approximate value of Hapsburg restoration an issue in be saved by putting a fence at the ground that if, guratively

The elephant does. not the impending general election, the top." breed until it is thirty years old and then produces one calf about Government, which is opposed to BISHOP OF LONDON. in defiance of the Hungarian every five years. What chance of Otto's pretensions. survival has this alow-breeding beast when trade demands that one- tenth of the whole elephant popu- Intion shall be eradicated annually from the African continent?

duale.

Not in Africa only, but all the world over, we see the same picture of decline and extinction. The .great auk has gone from the Atlan

tic, the passenger pigeon from the United States, the bison has been

Lastly, Zita invites the Hun- meet her at the Villa Pianore. garian Monarchist leaders to

'Day He Sent £100 Each to 400 Parsons.

BEST OF HIS LIFE.

"David Davies, alias William Hall, pleaded guilty to two previous convictions, and he stood with head. erect to hear sentence. He was soon to receive a staggering blow.

"Judgment was pronounced-ten } years' penal servitude.

It is no secret that the Vati- can would welcome the restora- The rhinoceros is probably in a tion of a Roman Catholic mon swept from the American prairies; worse plight. Some people have archy in Central Europe, while the unique fightless birds of New the ridiculous notion that there the forthcoming engagement, to

"Prisoner was momentarily stun Zealand are vanishing; three indi- can be manufactured from the horn be formally announced shortly,

ned. Ten years! Ten years! diduals only survive of the Java of this animal a stuff which is between the Archduke Otto and

"Suddenly a great cry Issued rhinoceros, the great whales have known medicinally as an aphro-Princes Marie, the seventeen-

from the depths of the man in the been swept from the Arctic, and disiar. It is imagined to be a pro-year-old daughter of the King Ingram) described the best day be sentenced to ten years!

The Bishop of London (Dr. dock: It is a great shame I should to-day their annihilation is proceed-duct like the monkey-gland of and Queen of Italy, indicates that of his life when addressing the ing in the Antarctie at a speed Europe, that will bring strength to Italy is not opposed to Zita's Church Assembly at Westmins which it is terrible to contemplate. the decrepit and stimulation to the cherished scheme for her son.ter, and had joined, in a discus

What a record! Wanton waste depraved. Was greater nonsense or and curnags, that is the story, and quackery ever heard of?

Certain observers who pooh-sion on the report of a Committee

**But David was in the dock. He Yet it is pooh scarcely a voice is raised to conto satisfy an abominable imposture union project as premature, if financial burdens of the clergy,

the Austro-Hungarian appointed to review afresh the must respect his betters! Was he demn it. Man is apparently fully of that kind, deceitful in its practice not impossible, forget the "im

going to say more? Who knows? content with his stewardship of the and filthy in its purpose, that the possible" scheme for an Austro said, "was when I had collected cells. They could not allow the The best day of my life" he The gaolers hurried him to the Creator's gifts.

most remarkable and prehistoric of German Customs union, which £40,000 in three weeks and had allence of the court to be broken all God's creatures is being obliter was launched to a surprised sent 400 £100 cheques to clergy, with cries from a despairing man ated from the earth.

world a few months ago.

"I shall never forget the touch-

"David Davies, allas William

As a consequence of this disgust- ing traffic the horn of the rhino-

of the

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shame; it was a savage sentence. It "The sentence was indeed a great

was cruel.

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A Unique Heritage. The fact is that every species of whose extinction we have any

ing letter from one of them to Hall, aged 29, a labourer, had gone record has been obliterated solely by man's agency. No beast of the ceros is now more valuable than United States, can solve this press out on, the breakfast table my which would make him keep the say that "When that cheque fell below. He had got a sentence field can equal him in crualty nor ivory, and its extermination is pro-ing and complicated problem.

wife came round and kissed me peace for many a long year. be more ealous to the consequences ceeding apacé. Three individuals

Game Reserves. of its acts when, through any ma- remain of the Java rhinoceros,There are many areas of waste, told you God would not forsake dock was answered in later years (laughter) and said "Now, 1 "That despairing cry from the chinery of killing, either profit or about two hundred individuals or almost waste. territory' which us,"

by the more humane treatment of pleasure can be secured.

great white rhino-might well be utilised for this pur- Is this to continue?

"And yet in spite of all this," prisoners. There areceras, and, since these forms pose. I have had the privilege of the Bishop added, "I had the sort "But the iron had entered the still a few people who' raise, their are the verge of extinc-investigating this problem on the of feeling that we are not really soul of David Davies. Henceforth voices against this terrible and tion, depravities are now being pan-spot, and a scheme of which the cutting the fee we ought to be was beyond redemption in this wanton destruction. They think dered to by a slaughter of the re- following is the barest outline, has Why is it the Church has not life. He set himself in open de that the creation has not been given maining apecies. If no protest is been submitted to H.M. Government taken to heart what I believe to fiance of all that was lawful, and to us for a plaything, that we have raised against a trade of that kind, for consideration.

be a very great scandal?

in the years to come his fellowship not the right to just what we please how can we expect any species to (1) A large park of approximate- with it to obliterate it or not a survive the more honourable trades ly 7,000 square miles at the junction that the working man cannot be So far no mercy had been

The first reason, I believe, is was with the works of darkness. cording to our. sweet will. Thoy In feathers and skins?

of Nyasaland, and Northern Rhode- lieve that a man who has got shown towards him." believe that we hold it in the nature The time has come when this sla to protect the magnificent from 55 to £8 a week is not ä

Mr. Scriven's painstaking re- of a trust, that we must hand on traffic in quackery should cease to fauna of South-Central Africa. (2) rich man. We had a day of search has resulted in a remarkable that trust to those who come after disgrace our possessions in Africa. A smail park at the extreme south prayer in East London for the

book. us, and if we hand it on mutilated God looked on his work and saw of Nyasaland to protect the nyala poverty of the clergy, and a work- that it was good"; man prostitutes which is on the verge of extincion. ing man said to me, "I am not it to Imposture and vice.

(8) A park in Tanganyika in the going to pray for that. My mate

and abused we shall be judged and condemned accordingly.

In Africa cur trust is particular-

tions to come."

Trade The Villain.

BOAR V. TIGER.

On a glorious

The Only Remedy, engle between the Ruaha-and Rufiji wid I only get 58 a week that in 1920, the sort of moonlight that night ly heavy. There the fauna is still

What can be done to preserve phant and other large species. (4) many of the thinking elergy are one gets only in the Far East. comparatively abundant and pos sesses a remarkably prehistoric Bome fragment from the swift and A large park of approximately 8,000 nuzzled and distressed by the three other rubber planters and 1 character. It is a unique heritage cerain forces of destruction 7. Last square miles on the Serengeti plains very early, and improvident mar were sitting on the verandab In that is rapidly vanishing. Its ex-year there were annihilated in Zulu of Tanganyika to protect a sample riages of the young clergy front of my bungalow in a remote tinction would be a gigantic calam-land 20,000 head of game, in- of the great mass of the common (Laughter).

part of the Malay States. ... Thô ity and crime against genera. cluding 9,000 zebra and 2,500 wilde plains game of East Africa (65)."I am bound to say it is rather clearing, bounded on three sides | |bungalow was built in a small beest. A similar holocaust may be The mass of Kilimanjaro above a shock to me when a man on by acres and acres of rubber trees, repeated any day. There are forces the lower limit of the forest belt as whom I have spent £1,000, money and on the other by virgin funzle. In Africa which, if loosened into a park for the preservation of the entrusted to me, on educating We were drinking the usual What is causing its extinction? action, would sweep what remains mountain flora and fauna of Africa, him comes to me after four stengah (whisky, and sode) and People usually think that the visit of the fauna from the continent (6) A park of approximately 12,000 weeks and says that he is going watching an outsize in wild boars ing sportsman is responsible for the almost like smoke before the wind square miles in what is now the to get married decline in the African fauna. That We dare not delay action too long northern game reserve of Kenya. Young people are not allowed about twenty yards in front of us "Jand-chia,wife, and family feeding is not so. True the sportsman The problem offers only one solu- (7) A small park at the southern to get married If they are clerks when, without warning, a tiger "kills," but his killing, as a rule, is tion.

end of the Aberdare mountains for in-the City subalt moderate and discriminate. What

The wild life of Africa, If It is the special protection of the hongo. Army, or the sportsman wants is a trophy

be saved, must be separated en- (8) A park. of approximately 1,700 Navy, until almost always a male trophy and tirely and completely from every square miles in the extr the getting of that us

form of human Interference, a Bo of Uganda along either him He wants four or five

long as men and animals try to livé Victoria Nile,... (9) A from each species and he disc

together there will always he com- Uganda of eighteen squar ates with pect to

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