Show JAPANESE JAPAS POACHERS BiRDS BIRUS Of PACifiC StANDS Uncle Sam HaKing Efforts to Save Feathered S T Tribes ibes HONOLULU Jan 27 via via San F Fran n n. cisco Feb 4 A. A million birds have been slaughtered each year for tor several years vears past In the Hawaiian Islands bird reservation reservation reservation reser- reser reser reser- by Japanese according to Capt F F. D. D Walker of the government boat baat Thetis which effected recent lecent capture of Japanese on Midway island That island Island isi- isi and and all others in the tue group gropp with the exception of are said to have hae lost practically all their teem once teeming once In bi d population There is no ice evidence o of an any marketing of bird skins and ani feathers In Honolulu the poachers' poachers spoils it ic 11 iF a said being so sol 1 by hy Osaka merchants in London Paris and New York The bird poaching joachin I 1 f Is b believed Is handled directly from Japan Japanese schooners ostensibly in tho the shark J sighing lishing business are frequent callers in the bud blId Island group which stretches northwest from Hawaii Captain Wall Walker r I says the he birds were so tame on all the 1 Islands Uland that thai they could be caught by Hand baud The Tho poachers he lie he states captured th them m cu ca cut off ft their wings I II IId and Id left tt the e helpless s creatures to die a slow I death I |