Coming nearer to Shangha, it may noted. that several times swithin the past few years, tigers have been Teerted and specimens actually shot un the" Hangshow area. Further south, in Fukien. Province, tigers are Suelentiy abundant to be a menace trid even a scourge to the rural habitants, faking a steady toll of the cattle of the villagers as they are Yet Sut to graze on the mountain sides fud often, kiling and. carrying off inman victims. "They. are particu numerous in the Funing. district sault of Foochow,-and_in the Yen Ping area up the' Min River, where the'well known missionary, the Rev. Harry. Caldwel, hes shot over dozen tigers in the past twenty years Wille his trusted native servang Da: 4a, claims atleest score to his own fun. It was in the Fuctang district that Mr," Caldwell twice saw the famous "Blue Tiger," which. several Hunters and sportsmen have tried to bog, but which has" never been Brought to book for the killing and eating of many villagers in the area ravaged.
Good Birth Year Stories of Chase 'The Year of the Tiger is a good one in which to be born, for alt who fro lucky' enough to see the light of riy in this year wilt be strong and tageous like their patron animal. The Japanese also follow the Twelve Yenr Animal 'Cycle, and. have the zamo beliefs concerning the animals as the Chinese, "Im Japan there is a Society whose members must all have: been born in the Year of the Tiger, and all of whom are characterized by their' bravery: and strength, Tt is a favourite society amongst. the mem= bers of the Japanese Army, Navy and 'Ait Force, Thus, in view of the pre~ sent Sino-Japanese conflict, the advent of the 'Year of the Tiger has 4 special significance, and many "japanese. fighting men' are pledging nemeelves to Justify the. fact. that they were born in a previous Tiger Year "in their activities in. the war that Is raging on Chinese soil Perhaps unknown to many people, the tiger is distributed alt over China, being found in the high moun-{ainous areas of the North and West, fas well as in the Yangtze Valley and in "South and South-east China, Formerly, Amoy was famous for Its tigers, which used to be hunted the caves amongst tumbled-down boulders in the hills near by. Many an old-timer belonging to the foreign community in that Treaty Port has, or had, several tigers to his credit, and could tell thrilling stories of the chase, There are even cases of Euro-can sportsmen in China being mauled by tigers.
Lieutenant-Colonet Hayley-Bell, tilt recently a residene in Shanghai, when hunting some years ago in the Canton area came upon and wounded a tiger, which escaped into the brush. Intent on securing his prey, he follow-it into the jungle, when suddenly he was attacked by its mate, which bore him to the ground and stood over him snarling savagely and lashing its fall. He tried to protect himself by drawing his knees up between himself and the brute, only to receive severe crushing bite on the lower: Part of the leg, the sears of which hho still carries.' One of his hunters fired a gun close by, and the tiger dashed off into the brush, leaving its victim and making good its own Except in the two later regions is to-day far from common, having, eon to a considerable extent killed off by hunters in the course of the past few decades. The writer has. teen fresh tiger shing brought to the market in Kuei-hua-cheng in Suiyuan Province, which had been secured in the mountains to the west of that city "along the Chinese-Nongolian border, Before the destruction of the great forests in the Imperial Hunting Grounds. in what is -now known as Jehol Province, tigers were of fairly Trequent occurrence. even up to a couple of decades ago.
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