ANTI-FOX HUNTING CRUSADE STARTED

Shannon News, 31 December 1928, Page 3

ANTI-FOX HUNTING CRUSADE STARTED

MOVEMENT IN WEST OF ENGLAND vG-AINS IMPETUS AS LAND OWNERS EXTEND BAN.

• The West of England has seen the ■ commencement of an influential crusade against fox-hunting in the past - few clays. The movement, was started . by Henry Nation, a prominent West Somerset farmer, who announced that ho intended to forbid- hunting on his land in future. His example has been followed by two other large land own*, ers, and now 1 the papers publish the decision of Mrs. Bonham Christie not to allow hunting over her estate of - 2,000 acres near Frome. In a letter to the South and West Wilts fox hunt, Mrs. Christie,, after denouncing what she describes as , “barbarous cruelty” to a “poor defenceless animal,” says, “when your ■■ pack becomes a. drag hunt (in which an artificially laid trail is used) I will help you all I can and allow you anywhere over my land.” The movement may be regarded as an outcome of the recent controversy which threatened to split the Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty 1 to Animals. The victory of Stephen , Coleridge and other members who want the society to work actively against “blood' sports” naturally has led to, ; increased activity among their sup- • ptrtcrs 'throughout the country.