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1914].
JAINA GAZETTE.
HUGE BUTCHERY OF ANIMALS IN INDIA.
Mr. Lallubhai Gulab Chand Jhaveri, Honorary Manager of the Humanitarian Fund, Bombay, heartily joins that earnest and indefatigable friend of the birds and beasts" Mr. Labh Shankar Laksmi Das in an appeal which we have the pleasure of publishing below :
To
APPEAL FOR MERCY.
GENERAL BRAMWELL BOOTH,
Chief of the Salvation Army, London.
REVEREND SIR,
It was stated in the Times of India of 19th January, 1914, that the following animals were killed in Bombay, Calcutta and Madras during the year 1912 :
(1) Sheep and Goats
(2) Cattle
319
1,215,438
111,872
11,024
2,860
(3) Calves
(4) Pigs
"When so many animals are killed in only three cities, please realise the huge number killed in the whole country."
(2) Mrs. C. L. H. Wallace, editor of the Herald of Health, 11, Southampton Row, London, W. C., wrote to me on 21-9-1912 that
+6 So many of your people who come over here, I am told, cease to be Vegetarians when in this country."
The number of Indian students now in the United Kingdom is between 1.600 and 1,700. (Times of India, 4-12-1913.)
(3) Mr. B. I. Bhutt, Commercial Instructor, High School, Azamgarh, wrote to me on 7th March, 1913, as follows:
"This part of the country is too much addicted to flesheating, almost all the communities eat it."
(4) In the pamphlet, Animals in their Relation to Empire, by the Hon. Mrs. Charlton, it is stated as follows:
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
"At the time of the Durga Puja in Calcutta, the lanes and alleys round about the temple of Kali may be seen positively following with the blood of thousands of goats. The stench of blood fills the air. The whole neighbourhood is redolent of slaughter."
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