Residents Leaving for South;, int Search of Big Game The keen interest on the part.of numerous British officers now.in Shanghai, for using their short-leave whenever' possible for hunting and shooting expeditions, may possibly account for the sudden prominence into which Indo-China has como: as a big game hunting region, or'assa Pleasure ground of jess. strenuous order. Several officers of: the Cald-stream Guards have gained consider. able insight into the fauna sot various parts of the country through these expeditions, and it is supposed tha€ partly on the strength of their enthusiasm, Shanghai residents.are being encouraged to use-a spring holiday in tracking big game' to One party bound for Indo-China left on Saturday, on bord the. MIN. M.S. Angers, While not intending to stress the big game hunting angle of their trip, this party com posed of Mr. A. clu Pac de Marsoulies, Colonel and Mrs. P. R. B. Law-Mr, and Mrs. F. Hochnke and ita and Margot Stevens, have chosen Indo-China as their goal for a holiday, which promises to be brimful of interest. Tt la their Plan to spend about. three weeks making the journey, to include Saigon, Angkor, Bangkok, Penang and Singapore, the boat for the turn trip to be caught at the Intter place. Then on the way back dur-jing the interval the steamer stays at Saigon, the party will proceed a short way inland for shooting. his part of the country abounds in ga from partridges to elephants. needs no pointing out that a holl" day, ranging in the diverting from Visits to the wonders of Indo-China's ut civilization, to partaking of pleasant conveniences of her capitals, and still-further to the break with routine, which is the purpose of a holiday, complete, even in three woaks.
The Attractive White Pig Early in March another party-including M, Chapeaux and Captain J. G. Dyson will leave for Phantiot, ubout 260 kilometres from Saigon in Annam. ints, bulfalos, tigers, wild cattle and' white pig are to list only a fow of the bounteous variety of big game in this district, February and March are the dry stretches marshy land, game frequents it dur ing the dry' period. Two weeks of actual shooting are anticipated by Mr. Chapeaux and Captain Dyson.
Other prospective hunters, whose being formulated, and who anticipate spending a longer period, mention Laos as the region for their sport. Laos, is the inland district adjoining Annam and bordered by Siam and Cambodia, Here expecially in wooded and mountainous portions of the district, game is in such abundance as to make anyone who feels the lure, pack kit the earliest opportunity, sides elephants, rhinoceros tiger, panther, brown Teopard, wild boar and num:
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