18 JUNE 1927, Page 12

Country Life and Sport

A CRCEL TRAFFIC.

An organized cruelty, new in its scope and effects, is vexing the spirits of dwellers in the West of England and Wales, especially in " Little England beyond Wales." A great peti- tion for leave to prevent the present practice has been signed throughout the county of Pembrokeshire by all sorts and conditions, by masters of foxhounds and sportsmen, as by those who may be called without offence sentimentalists. The question affects countrymen in all parts, but it is most insistent in the West. I have been at pains to investigate the facts on the spot, and find the truth to be even worse than the rumour. *