28 MAY 1910, Page 3

We publish elsewhere an account of the street-dogs of Con-

stantinople, which, as we learn from Wednesday's Times, have finally been abolished. The dogs were caught by means of lassoes or " huge wooden tongs," and removed in a procession of dust-carts. Their doom seems to be uncertain. "Some aver that they will share the fate of the other reactionaries' and be marooned on more or less desolate islands, others that they will be converted into gloves, others again that they will be pensioned off and live out their lives in concentration camps on municipal rations." Although for the sake of public health this revolution was probably inevitable, we cannot help regretting the disappearance of these picturesque and historic animals.