Effort To Abolish Sports Considered Cruel
Received Wednesday, 7 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 19. The British Field Sports Society is organising a national campaign to combat an attempt by the National Society for the Abolition ot Cruel Sports and the League Against Cruel Sports to bring down a private members' Bill prohibiting hunting or coursing in Britain. The Bill seeks to make any person taking part in these sports or watching them as a spectator liable to a.iine oi' £25 or alternatively a term of imprisonment up to three months. The promoters of the Bill claim to be assured that 405 members, on both sides of the House of Commons, will support the Bill "if the Government will agree , to give it time. The British Field Sports Society is colleeting subscriptions from all parts of the country with which to establish a fighting fund to resist the Bill. Forty of 59 branches of the Natio'nal Farmers' Union, which have considered the appeal by the .Field Sports Society, have, agreed to support it. There are still over 200 hunts in Britain, many of them largely supported by farmors.
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 October 1948, Page 7
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