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Can I recommend death by shooting?

HENRY WILLIAMSON, author of "Tarka the Otter,"

answers

above you.

the

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RSPCA

PERHAPS you, reader, are a trout fisherman, a riparian owner? Perhaps you peer heron-eyed into your pools, and, secing not the big fellow in his usual place, begin to frown to yourself? And finding a five-webbed seal pressed on the sandy scour by the roots of the oak tree, you say to yourself, Those beastly otters have had him. How about it?

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LETTER in my post, clearly you can see anything men don't know what it means, and never did, and, I hope, never

Well, you could get him that from the Royal Society

will. It comes from phoney A salmon swimming over, emotion.

way. But just a moment. In for the Prevention of particularly if it went fast,

your river are cels. Many more would flicker and glimmer. Al- Anyhow, if the R.S.P.C.A. cels than trout. Have you seen Gono Cruelty to Animals:

so, you would hear loudly the like to use it, that's their busi- an cel sneak upon a trout, grip We have had an inquiry as to drumming throbs of its sinua- ness. They are also welcome to it and eat it alive after, maybe, (A slow motion film phrases like "elucidated from hours of trying to flap itself the most humane method of de- tions.

would reveal the twenty m.p.h. the inquirer as to," when sim- free? stroying otters, which, it is dash, apparently in a straight pie people like ourselves would alleged, are doing great damage line, as a series of wriggles.)

Sold Here HONGKONG JIOTEL GARAGE Stubbs Rd.

WEDDING

No invitations will be

say "found out." But their use Trout lay their eggs in gravel. of the word "humane" is clear, Along comes the nosing, head-

new-hatched,

hide from light

in a certain river. As a matter Salmon in rivers are easily 80 no more criticism. They burying eel, showing its grey of fact, I have not yet clucidated caught by otters. I've caught want to know the quickest way belly as it bores its way under from the inquirer as to whether one myself when the river was to prevent suffering. Shooting stones where the little alevins,

low. the animals are damaging the

and enemies. In its terror the fish zigzagged Otter hunters won't like this. banks of the river or are mak

up and down the deep pool in They regard themselves as the ing too great an inroad into the which I was wading. It made protectors of otters. This isn't

it.

the herons, too.

KNOW a man who rids his river of otters by The Wedding between Mr. Thomas

Sing and Miss May Keat will fish population. . . . Although a wash of ripples, then threshed take place on the 17th October, the R.S.P.C.A. strongly

udvo- up the shallow strickle" of fast self-deception called hypocrisy. underwater traps. He shot all

They do protect otters. They water running into the pool- issued but all friends will be cates a respect for wild life what fishermen call the "thront" persuade many riparian owners His trout became scarce, after welcomed to the reception to be held at the Gloucester Hotel at wherever possible, it also takes of the pool-and beached itself. not to trap or shoot them. Thus a season or two. The eels ate So he trapped the practicable view that some- How it slapped and swished they are let alone during the the young ones.

the cels, in wire-net tunnels bait- ed with rabbits' guts. The times animals of certain kinds among the stones! You won't be breeding season.

lieve me, but I put it back, it "We will keep them down." trout decreased further. become too numerous, with the

was so beautiful, and I felt they say. They may kill fifteen (Also, I didn't want to or twenty in a season, April-Sep- take place. .The society can- risk being seen!)

tember. Two out of three otters found get away. not recommend either the use

I've watched an otter, weigh- of a gun trap or fumigation.

jump on a twenty-five pound

The

Hongkong Telegraph.result that destruction has to mean.

the

FIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1938.

NEVILLE

CHAMBERLAIN,

STATESMAN

Then he learned that those small stone-hiding fish, with flattish heads and spotted bodies, called miller's thumbs (about a

ing perhaps eighteen pounds, OTTERS do much good thumb long, they are) or mull- from the trout fisher- heads (in Devon) were eating The letter ends with a ra- clean-run fish and, with neck man's aspect. Take the fast all the trout-eggs and alevins he

hair raised and hurring with clear rivers of the north and put in. quest for "any suggestions as hunting excitement-ruge, tear the West Country. Lovely method of de- the flesh from the silver-red clearwater, fern-cool, bubble-

They suggest shoulder. When the fish was musical trout streams.

to h

humane

of human lives have been re-hearted, but hard-minded. prieved from death, sudden and

are

dead the otter lost interest. (I didn't, that time, put the fish back!)

So he lugged out his cel-traps and prayed for eels to return, having learned that the ecl feeds

The otter is a water Bedouin, mainly on mullheads, He'll travel up one river.

But how to regulate the num- journeying by night and sleep- ber of eels? Then he learned

stroying otters." It is within the province of a shot gun.

Prime Minister of the

Let's see what we can do for United Kingdom to grant "them.

i TROUT in a fast, rocky ing by day in n rush-ber that the otter's delight, its main First a few facts. Feel-

stream are also taken hollow waterside tree, or in a food, was an cel. - So he hoped reprieve from a death sentence.ings without facts are world- easily by otters. Most trout, holt under the banks (fancy) an for otters to return. They did. No one, but countless millions dangerous. Let us be tender- especially big or old fish, have English royal society of men And next year there were many

a "hidey-hole," as they say in caring for English animals not

more fingerling trout. Devon,

knowing that otters do no dam-

Two years later, one evening, age to banks) until he comes In the non-fouled.....parts of. The otter, travelling upstream to its source in a moor or moun- during the November .spawning awful, by the intervention of the

England there

rivers in at dusk (he is usually a beast tain slope, and then crosses over of salmon, he saw an otter conte eighth British Prime Minister of which are fish. The fastest and of stars and the moon), swims to another watershed and down into a pool where an old pug, or along the pool's bed; trout scat to the sea. Oh, to be free as veteran sea-trout, was lying be- the twentieth century, Arthur liveliest rivers are, the homes of ter. Some dash for their holes

an otter,

side a mother-of-pearl female. Commotion at once. Neville Chamberlain.

the fastest and liveliest fish- under roots of trees by the bank.

Tho otter merely pulls them out, Sometimes he meets another salmon and trout. Men enjoy takes them on the bank, and otter or otters and joins in play

To his amazement he saw the The reprieve may be only tem-catching them. So do otters. chaws them head first.

with them. How they love play old pug chase the otter about the porary, for peace has by no Like most fishermen

ing... sliding down n steep pool, bumping it and so embar- (but not

You or I could pull them out bank into water, or over a water- rassing it that the otter got out means come to Europe, But he those with nets who take salmon with our fingers-"gubb" them. fall, again and again, rolling and and went hunting rabbits in the would indeed be a pessimist who for a living), otters

after And if you take a trout one day, wrestling in the white turmoil hillside warren.

there'll be another in that hidey- below, then out again with a would say that war hovers as salmon chiefly for sport. hole after the next spate has whistle ... closely over the Continent to-

The otter is a land beast. day as it did throughout last few centuries ago his ancestors week. Mr. Chamberlain's magni- took to hunting in water. He is ficent efforts may have succeed-half-way between scal

go

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fined down.

that low, sweet whistle of joy, like curlews cry- ing one to another as they fly Now about over the seashore. They are so

the R.S.P.C.A. question-

what to advise their fisherman happy so keen a joy in life. and member. "The most humane But to our question: Can I, of "Tarku the

It was an exhilarating sight. It restored his balance, his tran- quillity. And in future, he de- cided, he would leave the balance of nature alone.

IN the wild or natural world speed and grace

ed in averting catastrophe for weasel. Young otters are scared method." That word "humane" the author only a few hours, a few weeks of water, and usually have to is much used nowadays: almost Otter," recommend death by and virility are the gifts of na-

entirely a town word. Country- shooting?

or a few months. It may be

be dragged in by their mother. They hold their breath under averted forever, if the three water, and hunt by sight. other leaders gathered with ELON-S

our

will

Premier at Munich

approach their taski

you swim down in a salmon pool on a dark night, and open your eyes and with full consciousness of the look up, you'll be surprised how wave of relief and thanksgiving

that has swept the world at the

fact that their deliberations have mun or woman in the world who. become an actuality. The senti- does not pray for their success- ment in favour of peace to-day, the world will owe a debt to Mr. after the terrific tension. under Neville Chamberlain that it can' which the world has laboured repay only in a small way by handing his name down to during the past week, is over-

posterity. He has already join- whelming. The thought of even

ed the immortals in British poli- the proximity of war Was

tical history as the Prime Minis- horrible and heart-breaking, and

Not that our the German,, Italian, French and tor of Peace.

im- Premler-Statesman seeks British statesmen gathered at

mortality. In his memory, and Munich must feel in their

in the memory of his fellow- breasts the same irresistible'

countrymen and peoples of other urge to tread undorfoot this!

lands, will forever remain the dreadful monster that, yester

knowledge that, if these negotia- day, was within a few hours of

tlona succeed, millions who were devouring civilisation.

about to die will owe 'thoir re-

If the present deliberations prieve to the untiring and in- succedd and there chỉ be no -

o defatigable efforts of one mans

ĮSIDE GLANCES ..

ture to hunters and hunted. The charm of the deer is due to its speed and sensibility-all

By George Clark the keener for ite need to escape

Copr. 1911 by Unitel Venture Bankimin, Eus.

"You should have gotten trump out frat, THEN. told us about.. your choposon, and then played hearts back to Gladys!".

its enemies. (Don't write and tell me I am a brutal fellow: it's not my world; I didn't make it; I'm only a reporter).

I've been otter-hunting, but I didn't care much for it-usually was too mentally preoccupied to watch the individual ways of dogs.

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I have felt anguish for hunted otter; I havo enjoyed the company of those who did not feel as I felt. In my time I have waited to shoot an otter, and not been smart enough; and, been much relleved afterwards that I hadn't fired...

I have reared and tamed trout; and caught the wild with gnat-like lures of silk and steel and feather, with a cat-like exultation at my skill with a 2oz. rod..

I think I know the different Bets of feelings which, in men, are usually the causes of bitter- ness, condemnation, and con flict,

And if I have learned any moral from the wild world it is this: Don't trust your feelings. until you get your facts