MONKEY PLAGUE
VISITATION UPON DELHI
CALCUTTA, October 11
Certain parts of Delhi have been suffering from a plague of monkeys. The only method that has been tried of getting rid of the pest is to trap them and send them off by rail to some distant part on the banks of a. river. But, like cats, they find their way back again, and the authorities have paid the trappers in vain. The idea of shooting or killing the monkey is, of course, quite repugnant to Hindu sentiment, which", however does not go so far as to object to them being trapped, beaten or frightened.
In the most sneret cities such a Tie nates or Puri, Hindu shopkeepers delight in baiting a monkey caught in the act of thieving. Sometimes a.-ea.p-tured monkey is put in a bag and dowsed in a tank amid the cheers of the crowd, hut if is always set at liberty in the end, for no Hindu is prepared to have its death on his con-s-ciencs.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1933, Page 8
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169MONKEY PLAGUE Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1933, Page 8
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