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Show Bird Slaughter Appalling. Special Cablo to The Tribune. PARIS, Aug. 20. The French Leaguo for the Protection of Birds Is greatly concerned about the vast slaughter of birds caused by thc fashion for "Chan-teclor" "Chan-teclor" hats. Tho league asserts that 300,000,000 birds aro killod yearly for the adornment of women. Last year a single sin-gle London merchant Is asserted to havo sold 32,000 humming .birds. Oddly enough, tho Society for tho Protection of Animals this year presented Its annual "grand prlx" to M. Rostand, tho author of "Chantecler.1' |