VILLAGE EATS DELICACIES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 280, 7 March 1941, Page 3

VILLAGE EATS DELICACIES

AS DUKE KILLS ZOO

'To economise, the new Duke of Bedford has gebur to kill off the animals in his late father's "zoo> Jf says a London cable. 4 , '<j| Inhabitants of the adjacent village of Wobum are now dining on stewed bison and they say that it* makes richer gravy than ordinary __•>!£ meat. • They are also eating without coupons roast fawn venison, wjiicli '"'li they buy from the estate. The Duke's economies include thedismissal of five chauffeurs and : V many gamekeepers and indoor sei> vants. -a Most have found war work. dl The nearby villagers have ]ive&-§|lj for years in feudal dependence oft /ia the old Duke, who sent them to -' IS specialists and health spas, ed houses and work, and acted as beneficent autocratic godfather. After his death, in August, manraH retainers living in the village ceived no pension from the The new Duke told the Daily fflljjH press that he had to get rid of animals because of the food shonHHj age, but he still had a few left. The Duke recently refused to £7 a week—the stipend of the vicarJ|H| of St. Mary's Church, Woburn,-fj which the dukedom has always paiajflil He declared that he was leaving •||| the Church of England, as he felt that its support of the war wasr'aaß "wicked and anti- Christian." *a| He added that he was linked with' -|9 the peace movement. fH He wanted "no further connec-' tion with a Church \yhioh supports mass murder and organised sin, 5 * ; | Afte rdeath duties the Duke re- 1, ceived £600,000 from his father's estate. He claims that through taxation, etc., his income is a quarter of his father's. Last year, as Marqiiis of Tavi-/ '. stock, he made contact with the German legation in Dublin and announced that he had a "basis of '' peace." ' :/; Later the British Government disowned him and the German lega- » tion repudiated the alleged peace # terms. ' v