SHOOTING
Tiger Hunting In China: Ready for his greatest adventure of "shooting" tigers in China's interior with a technicolour camera, the Rev. Harry R. Caldwell, white-haired American missionary and famous hunter-explorer, recreated his past exploits in a speech before the local Rotary Club during a recent meeting in April.

The Rev. Caldweu, who in the past 40 years is credited with shooting 34 tigers, and whose hunting trips have often been discussed in these pages, said be was icaving for Amoy in a week's time and from there to Fokien Province, the country of the famed "blue tiger."

The audicnce hung on his words as he related his many escapes from death. "The difference between a tiger in the zoo and the tiger at largc is what is between you," he said, and according to his talk many were the times when only a few feet and his gun separated the Rev. Caidwell from a big cat springing for the kill.

He told of one time he ran along a tiger trail, thinking that the animal-frightcned by the whir of his companion's movie camera-was tar ahead. Suddenly a blood-curdling roar sounded just in front of him. Thc grcat bcast jumpcd out of the undergrowth a fcw feet away, where he had hid- den.

"I don't know," he said, "whether any of yad have experienced the feeling of your blood freezin in your veins. My body was petrified. I conldn't think." It was more from the habit of years than from any volition of his own that he lifted his rifle and fired. When he camc to his senses the tiger lay dead at his "cry feet.

Another time his companion was "shooting" a beautiful picture of a tiger crossing a streasn Sn the direction of a lamb whiels they had trussed as bait. Through the telephoto lens on his rifle, the Rev. Caldivell shot the animal-all for the benefit of the cameta. When, after all the detailed pre- paration had been taken and danger undergonc, the film was developed, it was found that there was nothing but a black smudge on the negative. The range on the camera was not right. Pictures that people would have travelled way around the world to take were spoiled.

Hunting Season Here Ended: Notice was given by the headquarters of the Japanese Garrison in Shanghai that game hunting will not be pennitted after April 15 when the season ends. The notice read:

1. The current game bunting season will be closed on April 15.
2. No game hunting will be permitted after that date.