THE EXPORT OF HORSES TO BELGIUM.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]
gm —Before the war I remember reading of a scheme—advo- cated in the Spectator—for setting up a factory, or factories, in this country where horses no longer fit for work could be sent, and their carcases converted into useful products, the horrible cruelties of the export trade in live horses to Belgium being thus avoided. If it is true that the R.S.P.C.A. contemplates erecting a memorial to the animals who served in the Great War, I wish that the memorial could take the form of such a factory. There are, I feel sure, many who would subscribe towards it. The suffering of horses during the. war was unavoidable, hat what they endure during transit and on arrival in Belgium might be prevented if some such scheme could be undertaken. If decrepit horses are so profitable to the Belgians surely they might be turned to some account here.—I
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