ANIMAL SUFFERING IN JAFFA
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—May I make an urgent appeal towards obtaining an ambulance for the Jaffa and Telaviv Society for the Pro- tection of Animals ? Thanks to the strenuous efforts of the Society there is a Hospital for the animals but what is so urgently needed is a Float Ambulance to get the horses and other animals to it. The villages and markets six and seven miles away the Inspectors are able to visit, and perhaps bring in animals, but these poor creatures are often in so terrible a state that it may take a day to walk to the Hospital and every step is agony. So hot is the sun that not infrequently they die by the way, or have to be shot to end their misery.
With an ambulance the men could go much farther afield and attend them in their own villages, and hold a clinic one day a week in each remote place where at present the animals have not the slightest attention. When ill or wounded they are either worked till they drop or left in fields to die of starvation. A method the Arab• believes will cure sores is -to- burn them with red hot irons. This ignorance and terrible suffering can be changed by simple instruction and remedies given by the Society's Inspectors, but until they have this Motor Ambulance it is impossible to gain admittance to these far away villages. already £26 has been given and a lady has promised £100 if ten more will give £10. The cost will be roughly £300.
Donations for this purpose may be sent to C. Broadhurst Esq., Police Offices, Jaffa, Palestine, or to the Secretary, Council of Justice to Animals, 42 Old Bond Street, W. 1.—I
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