31 OCTOBER 1931, Page 17

POINTS FROM LETTERS

For some time past there has been an intermittent traffic in horses between the Argentine and the Continent of Europe. The grave apprehension to which this traffic has given rise in the minds of those who love animals has been greatly increased of late by reports that a new traffic has been inaugurated this year between Canada and France The traffic from the Argentine is no less appalling. In one case twenty-two horses out of seventy died on the voyage. Being carried on the open deck they suffered terribly from cold and exposure, while nearly all were lame and many had open wounds caused by kicking and savaging. The traffic, conducted as it is between .Canadian and Argentine ports and the Continent of Europe, cannot be controlled by the British Government. The infliction of this unnecessary suffering upon dumb animals can be stopped, if at all, only by an indignant public opinion expressed in the Argentine and Canada.—SIR GEORGE Cocaunthr, 5 Bloomsbury Square, W.C. 1. TRAFFIC IN HORSES.