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Uganda's Big Game War Against The Poacher

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By DUDLEY HAWKINS

Nairobi, Kenya Sometimes, but rarely, the

poachers get bush justice.

Not

EATH waits round

long ago a buffalo in a wire every corner in the nare near Fort Portal Idlied a Uganda bush these poacher and injured another came to check the days-death in the form of when they charging will animals mare.

The Kreatest problem L

enraged by the pain of lighting ponthing is the case wire anares or wounds from wi which antics can be made

African pouchers”

and arrows.

spears End

Innocent Almost every week people are belag killed or ter- ribly muted by injured but loes, Hous Tinos, clophunts and other aliotis that charge humans en sight. Last year, an Uganda, West Nile District, 30 people we gored by bultatus. Six died.

Women going to draw water Jave ben trapped in the bush lining the rivers. Children at piny have been “speared" to a gim death on the wicked horns of buffaloes waiting in the long grass. Unsuspecting travellers along for paths have bees L right and simmstied to denth

by maddened elephants

the dimeulty of finding Them in 10 bush Half-inch wire can be bought for about fover shilinga

yard at mon trading stores. And poachers have even found a new us fur 4 yres they use the wire from the bead:

12

#surprise muid at the santuary this thilu elephant

Ühe Department sught 20 poachers, destroyed their cups and found of

251,

120 stare....

Ruthlessly

· The unly answer is te sucke the buying of

W.C

aflicuit

I possible," said a warden.

Gler doubt if it would help. Now "Peachers would simply make lots, starved because ponchers song rape smuts or steal more wie from telephone lines thon have wiped ul their natural prey, are waylaying herdainen ond even breaking into Bimey

- huts by night.

Illegal Trade

skin

of

Afcon

they do now. Stopping wire wouldn't stop them purchase burdina deu talls .m! pils full of shoup stuk. perple

been 1h:;་་

hose, too

Ini

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1956,

Page Four Continues The Personal Testament Of Group Capt. Peter Townsendi

WHEN THE WHEELS HAVE no more traCTION, THERE

WILL BE THE WINCH (RIGHT) MOUNTED ON THE FRONT...

N

TO, the drawbacks of driving round the world alone will not but be personal

killeri physical ones,

So ruchtes by have ponchers sinughtered wild animals that today they have be wiped mod out completely in mony parla. In some distelets whole" families would

resull man-eaters

muke

all

Thero is another thing about going alone.

It may seem to strike a faintly sen- sational note the "steam- ing jungle, arid desert, ban- dit country" line. But I may get stuck in the

every traveller exposes him- or the sand or m

Do not for- river where a helping hand self to risks.

the get that fourteen people die the British of Ben have become confrmi” ! difference. Rut the four. every day on

mie drive will see 17 by wheel Arrieans there flyer in terror right, deperuiing wholly on the through the most difficult

Come small

when pentuetion of the

terrain,

the and wheels Harve TRO more there will be the traction winch, which is mounted on the front of the driven by the engine. With

Thearsands poachers empitalising 031 The Megral trade 1ft ment, ivory, rhino horn,

und wilde Insie Iniis 2315 responsible But the Uguida Game Depart men Es powerless to top them, fon it is virtually imposible to impose stringent control on the territory's 04,000 square miles

myamp. Jungle, maintains itiment's staff. which often

,rulves too late.

AL

Arhuli id meling sally everal chiefs were s

the sinuchter they tough worried at

of

and lukes

I trying, even Game Depart ment stult have had to face charging animals with

Win 100LS round their necks tegen the goverment to allow

or legs. During se control people to buy

Kwania und

In the

countles

mangers had to

Maruzi pelts.

shoot

40 rhino.

carrie!

W

Wit

only abominable Every one of them iness, which requires hardly trap or spear any skill or courage, d Mr Assistant Owell. all three, T. R. H "My

are always com- Warden in the Game Depart plaining." say:

the

Game 11 is not only cruel t funger for the Northern Range, animals but dangerous

even on

sumetimes

car and

ronde.

Going Alone

are unaceus- FEW people

tomed to taking risks. I ofter: feel a keen delight in

a hundred feet or more of doing so, but I do not be steel cable to haul on, the love in tempting Provi- 123

winch enormously increases dence, and a calculated risk one's chances of getting out need not do so.. I think the

best plan is to accept

the of trouble.

risk and trust in Providence. There will doubtless be sec- tions of the route where going alone is not accept- able, and I shall have to act accordingly.

to

game,

a humani

"Snares have been picked up humans We fully appreciate the boundary of the the importance of Murchisun. Fali Nutional Park, killed legfimately, as

birt trupping involves and it would be a tragedy if a fool, visitor's na

£134 waste, was ultocked by unendous

many have died and been anima! of these buried in its flesh. caten by other animals by the time the poachers return to their

an elephant or buffalo with one

This ha n't happened yet, but the Park is still young.

res."

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is nothing If there which to anchor the other end of the cable, one £'1177 wheel and bury the spare

Fail- attach the cable to it. ing this I shall have to use my wits, or wait for help, or I walk for it.

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RISKS? CAN'T IMAGINE

LIFE WITHOUT THEM

But I don't believe in tempting Providence

me

in will.

mainten-

me

later I went to England to would not have been in a a glorious "wizz" round the test but ordinary, 1 shall have to be

about track in the jet ear. Under the conscientious Hee him.

strong position to argue guidance of a charming instruc- ance if the car is to see But luckily nobody did, part- tor, I went over the engine and through, which I am trusting it ing bicycles and their own "Sit down and tell

ly because it didn't sink in chassis of the Land Rover flat fest. 1 received a de- what you want

We examined the us to do," until I had repeated it two some detail. lightful letter

from an he said as I confronted himn, or three times, by Englishman who had walk- not without a little trepida- time I felt braver. ed 5,000 miles from the Bel- tion. gian Congo; and a Luxem- bourger friend

both legs, paralysed in

of whose normal means transport is an invalid chair,

of mine,

drove a Citroen from Delhi to Brussels.

Lol Of Nerve

AT that time it needed

quite a lot of nerve, even am to utter the words "i proposing to motor round To return to the question the world," especially if it with four-wheel was my opening gumbit, of a car drive. I wrote to Mr Spi- as it was in this case. cer Wilkes, the managing

Car If someone director of the Rover Company, and a week or so "Don't be

had replied, ridiculous,"

IS DULLES A

to me:

I

"The

New York, Tuesday have said HAVE been spending curious thing about Foster some time recently at is that ho should be so in- the United Nations and discreet when you consider have heard some wild talk. that he has been a lawyer Not by the delegates, but by and a diplomat all his adult All his training and some officials when they are life. off the record and by some experlenco flt him for dis- correspondents.

cretion, yet he is always blabbing.'

which design and construction

engine, the transmission and the fuel system. We discussed the cause of possible fallures and how to discover and cure them,

Whatever make of car I chuse, it was imperative that the manufacturers should give some measure of co-operation. I had no ides how much to ex-

inc

of the I was shown how to bandle the car and get the best out of it over most furbidding country. We lurched and bucketed over ruls and bumps, plunged down small precipices and foundered through

squelching

morasses.

Great Strain

THE car 'will have to stand up to a great strain over its long

We often got begged down completely, and I got in töme useful practice with the winch- as we hauled the car out.

peet nor how much I would get. When Mr Wilkes had finished stening to me he readily agreed help. I decided there and then to buy a Land Rover, not regretted my choice. kindness and co-operation have received from the Rover which I hope to do in eighteen company, from Mr Wilkes down, months. ius been splendid.

People looked slightly aghast and arduous journey. I have not when I returned to my hotel in calculated the distance exactly, the evening, plastered in mud. I have but I will be in the region of (World

Copyright Reserved. The 50,000 or 60,000 miles-ebout steproduction in Whole

Part Birictly Forbidden.) five years' ordinary motoriƒg—

Later on I spent ten days at the works, which ended up with

But many of the roads I shall have to travel will be anything

in

TOMORROW:

The World Soos Me As A Special · Case... -

SINISTER SCHEMER ?

DON

IDDON'S

DIARY

Mr John Foster Dulles is

Dulles, who is 68 and has the storm centre, although

on half A ho seems completely unper- travelled dose turbed by the bitter com- million miles in the past ments from London and few years, said ever since Paris on his extraordinary he was an undergraduate at

Princeton University: "My Dulles sharply. behaviour.

Dulles has blundered, as he has so often done be fore, and he has certainly bet us down. But to sug- gest that he has deliberate ly double-crossed Sir An. thony Eden over and over again and is guilty of per- fidy as Mr Ted Leather has done, is too strong.

my

I saw Prezident. Eisenhower. at. Ebbets Field-ke is a Dodger Fun and he got a tumult of cheers as

ho arrived and de- period, but not much attention

But don't let us get too Greg Bautzor, has been given t furious. The British Consul- the Jenifer Jone: role in Ernest General, Sir Francis Randall, Hemingway's "The Sun Alsd asked me to his house the other Riss." night. He said: "Despite all the troubles and difficulties the British-American partnership and friendship is, and must be, our sheet anchor."

Substitute British Empire for British and Sir Francis is

Adlai Stovenson also went to pletely right,

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Brooklyn-for another game and Swarms of baseball fana in posed wearing the "caps" of "the town have made Broadway, Iwo teams, and looked a bit boom. There are queues block- ridiculou. He did not get the ing Times Square outside the chefis that the President rem Palace Theatre, where Judy colved, but then he rarely does, Garland is playing. Judy, too

Eisenhower can set a crowd plump, but still on effective

.com-

uring the game,

pour in from the 48 States that

The Toronto trouper, 1 charging as high as on fire. Stevenson cannot, al- one ambition is to do what Globe and Mail saya: "London $7.50 a seat for her vaudeville though the reports continue to

understandably show and is getting it, grandfather did not and Parls are become Secretary of State." disgusted with Mr Dullos's re- The crowds outside the Mark the Democrati are running marks." Disgusted is a strong Hellinger Theatre, where Julio strongly and the election, will

Andrews, Rex Harrison, and be close Stanley Holloway are appearing Eisenhower currying thá In "My Fair Lady" are even Republican Party on his back, bigger.

but his vast popularity mas goin him another four years in the White House.:

MORE GAFFESEN word,

"The

cstablish their MINOR MIRACLE

The same paper says; John Foster Dulles realised

time has come to break loose. his ambition after years as an Britain, France, and the other international lawyer and work- ing as special envoy for both nations must

Although

own Middle East policy un President hindered

Washington's by parties, Elsenhower often disagrees with

Tumbling, ..... him he never rebukes him, and

to take the opportunity or dis- Suez, dispute into a crisis. It the scalpers for £33 pair,

himself ** with Me has now turnod that crisis into The film version of My Fair Dick Nixon has changed. He is

remarka

about

I will make a definite forecast, I achieved a minor miracio the other day, and got two later

Richard Nixon has nuo boon tickets for the show, which are in town and fny opinion of his Dulles's trouble is that the President pointedly refused that fumbling turned the selling on the Black Market by

man has changed. Or maybe he talks too much, he can not leave anything unsaid, soclating

Dulles's

good.

Now and a fiasco which threatens the life Lady" cunriot be made, for at he is vain and relishes the

"Colonial Powers,

of the British and French least five years under in agree rrine. Tim, mam rolls off Governments. spotlight, the newsreel

ment with the Columbia Broad- epoches cenovhly camera, the front-page ban I don't think the President is

going to fire: Mr. Dulles, cer- In the Montreal- ner. He flies about far too my not before, the election. there is talk of the British and Britains: Deborah - - Ke much, and lacks balance, There will be of course, more French Governments having currently apptarior

con "bamboozled." stability, and judgment, beyazos, more bimbling by this

Here in New York the Fort pathy The Ki But he is not sinister man because he is made that,"

saalle Puller for his

alendar The Proud, and

which backed mendously-quick at anawe

La

comers. He, 1s, quit

and he has un cony

Camilo, thi

the women. Milos,

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