The efforts of the SSP.CA. to alleviate the suffering of animals in Shanghai has been meeting with much success lately, due in part at least to the diligence of their Inspectors and the attitude of the Courts, About tone week gv, Sub.-Inspr. "Swayne, SMLP, brought action against, the owner' of the Hen Tat Bleaching Factory, Lunghua, also the mafoo, when one of their mules appeared i distressful condition on. Settlement fonds. The Judge fined the former and the mafoo $4 arid made him pay $7 veterinary fees.
This animal and another made daily trips alternately between Lunghua and) Sungkiang, conveying factory On April 28, Inspr., Eaton, attached fo the Society, while en route to defendant's premises, met a mafoo ahd a second animal, the animal in poor "condition, Having ascertained the factory that the mule undergoing treatment had greatly improved, he returned and, overtaking the 3 cond vehicle in the "French Cor fession, arrested the mafoo and forced him to remove the animal to the French Police Station. On April 40, although the mafoo had been re-eased, action was taken against the owner direct.
The Judge fried him $1, but Inspr. Eaton Informed the Court that defendant lived outside the Court Jurisdiction and therefore there hho cause to believe that the animal's condition would be bettered, He suggested that the defendant should pay veterinary fees, 'The Court Agreed and ordered the animal im= pounded' until Nt for work again and that owner should pay the costs—his in addition to the fine,
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