GOOD HUNTING
Snt,—At a time when Alped spokesmen emphasise that the present hunger in Germany is caused by a world shortage of food, I am told that about 30,000 wild boars are roaming about in the regions of Trier and Koblenz causing greit damage to agriculture. The same problem is acute in parts of the British zone. Hunting appears to be a privilege of the officers of the occupation armies. Military authorities have the power to issue hunting licences to German civilians, or to decide about the occasional lending of rifles to German gamekeepers. The result of this state of affairs is inugh hunting of high-class game out of season and an increase of wild boars which seem to be no tempting target. In Siegerland and Sauerland farmers refuse to cultivate parts of their land which are only used asroa feeding ground for wild boars in the end. Similar complaints are voiced throughout the Luneburger Heide.
Proposals by German authorities for a remedy against these chaotic conditions in gamekeeping and bunting have not had much result. One has to bear in mind that in Germany gamekeeping and hunting accord- ing to the rules provided many tons of fresh meat to the national food
supply.—Yours respectfully, PETER RATAZZI. Kenion Press, High Street, Slough, Bucks.
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