The Archive · 1925

The Homeless Dog

To the Editor of the Nowti-CHina Daty News."

Stt,—As a dog lover, I write in the hope that matters in connexion with the retention and eventual destroying of dogs at the Kennels under the jurisdiction of the 8. M.

will soon be improved.

'As I understand, the regulation fas it stands at present, allows for any stray dog which might find itself in the Kennels, being destroyed after a 10 days' stay at the station. On the surface, this, arrangement might seem to be all right; but In polar of fact, what do we find? Many of these dogs which are eventually destroyed are indeed very fine animals; and if only there were some way of tetting Shanghai fork know' many of these doggies, instead of ed 1 consigned to the lethal ci Ler, would find themselves taken to good homes.

the great ma of these animals Another the condition of the end of the period of deten-fon certainly suggests that they means too well fed dur-imprisonment. upon the Police task it is to supervise the animals. The writer, on every occasion he has visited the Kennels, Tam, Dear Dr. Yui, Yours. sincerely Foreicnee, North China, Aug. 17, 1925. been, sent to the different newspapers of Canton tthe Red Kuomintang Admjgistration warning them that they must not Publish news of military affairs, other than communiques issued by the Ministry of War.—"'Sincanpao,"

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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