28 AUGUST 1920, Page 17

SHOOTING SEA-GULLS.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I beg to seek information. Some bounders armed with guns, taking their stand on private property, fire over the beach at our gulls with dire results. The police say that they are powerless to act as the foreshore is the property of the landlords whose holdings abut immediately on to that fore- shore. As a town councillor I wish to introduce a resolution making it illegal to shoot these birds. Have local bodies any powers in this direction? We must make a grim fight for our feathered friends.—I am, Sir, &e., E. J. F. GARNET MAN. Sandgate, Kent.

Of Austia and Russia.