New Rules to Check Hunting But No Enforcement: Stoppage of Export the Only Way An indication that the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce of the Chinese Government is attempting to make some provision for the protection of game in China is given in the appearance of a new set of Game Rules and Regulations received locally. The first part of these rules which provide for the issuance of 'Hunters' Certificates" and for the prohibition of—unsportsmanlike capture of game is the same as that made out several years ago by the Chinese Government but never carried into effect. However, many pages of detail regarding the application of these rules were added under date of September 14, 1921. These rules and regulations were recently sent to the various foreign Ministers in Peking who in turn sent them to their consuls throughout China. They were received by a certain Consul-General in Shanghai who immediately had them translated from the Chinese and placed in the hands of the "North China Daily News."
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It is unfortunate that, since the Chinese Government have gone to the trouble of drawing up such a code and of printing and circulate ing it, they could not have made it of real value and then have taken steps to enforce its provisions.
The history of the agitation for a code of hunting rules and regulations is known to many people in Shanghai. It was first begun by a group of foreigners who met in Shanghai in 1913 and drew up a petition which was sent to Peking suggesting that something be done to lessen the slaughter of birds and beasts which threatened to exterminate wild game life from China, In 1915 the first rules and regulations were made by the Chinese Government. With those in hand, a large meeting of foreigners gathering from many treaty ports was held in the Palace Hotel.
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