30 JULY 1904, Page 2

The Spaniards have had a sharp lesson that it is

not wise to re- establish the brutal scenes of the arena. A fight was arranged. at San Sebastian between a bull and a tiger, and the whole population crowded to see. The beasts, however, who were exhibited in a large wooden cage, saw no reason for fighting, and when goaded by the attendants the tiger succeeded in breaking his way into the open air. The spectators were panic-struck, and the armed police who guarded the sports poured a volley into the animal's body. The tiger died, but many of the bullets missed him and reached the spectators, killing two of them, according to the latest accounts, and