27 JUNE 1931, Page 3

Foot-and-Mouth Disease We greatly regret a new and severe outbreak

of foot- and-mouth disease, widely spread- through the North of England and Scotland. The slaughtering and burning begin again after a long respite from those horrors. It is expensive to the tax-payer in compensation ; it is heartbreaking to the cattle breeders and farmers. It is also aggravating that it should have broken out just at the time of many big and still more small local agricultural shows which will be ruined by the " stand-still " order. The infection has been traced to cattle imported from Ireland.