COCK-FIGHTS IN FRANCE
SUNDAY MORNING BOUTS. British troops in France have been warned not to attend cock-fights. Cock-fighting takes place almost every Sunday in some parts of France. But the Army authorities, taking the view that cock-fighting offends the principles of many people in England, are discouraging the British Expeditionary Force from accepting invitations to witness this sport. In some districts soldiers, with nothing else to do, in their off-duty hours, had occasionally attended cock-fights and had made small side-bets.
One English soldier, who saw cockfighting for the first time, declared that he found it neither thrilling nor particularly brutal. In each of 10 fights the loser was killed.
Some bouts finished in less than two minutes with the losing bird lying under the spurred feet of the winner. One lasted nearly ten minutes but the winner was badly hurt.
The troops do not like this kind of spectacle. With nothing else to do when they are of! duty, however, one can readily understand their going out of curiosity.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 May 1940, Page 7
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