4 OCTOBER 1930, Page 21

BRITISH SCHOOLBOYS AT BULL-FIGHTS

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The announcement in the Daily Mail of September 20th that attendance at two bull-fights formed part of the arrange- ments made for British schoolboys visiting Spain must fill workers for animals with shame and dismay.

Last March you kindly published a letter of mine about the progress of humane ideas in Albania. In such countries as this, where care for animals is naturally of recent growth, England is looked to as a model.

It will be deeply humiliating to confess that some at least of our scholastic authorities consider a bull-fight a proper spectacle for those under their care, and one that they can fittingly condone by their own presence.

I know many Albanian schoolmasters who would not