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Show HUNTER HAS TURNED SOLDIER Cspt. Selou, Famed on Two Continents, Conti-nents, Fighting With the Allied Troop in East Africa. Ciipt. !'. U. Selnus, fiihious throughout through-out the world us u blg-gamo hunter, la hunting tho biggest game that Inm full en to his tot. For ho hns Joined the ulllcf, and somewhere In East Africa Is accredit-Ing'lilui accredit-Ing'lilui no well that only recently he wuii meiitloneil In dispatches for "gnl-hint "gnl-hint and illstiiiguiKlied conduct." Scions, nnioiig the natives of Africa, Is noted us tt scout utid hunter. All though he has passed his sixty-fourth blrthduy, ago did not deter hlin from Joining the Legion of Frontiersmen in Fcbrtmry, l!)in, nnil. u mouth Inter, hu was giiettiil n temponiry secoud-lleu-tenant of the Twemy-llfth buttiilloii Itoynl Fiwlll-rs. Since then, hu hna been proiuotM' to n captaincy. Since hr v.,., :i youth of nineteen, Selous has ut his life hunting IiIk game In tho ,uids of Africa. When he left ICngby, he packed his equipment ndMoiight Mntubelelnnd, where b Rtnrtctl his career. Years ago, he tnnght iliuvn his hundredth elephant. Keventy-clgut of them wcro slnugh-lered slnugh-lered with nn old smooth-bore, muztle-hmdlng muztle-hmdlng duck gun. Uo holds a record of three full-grown lions In four shots, and his aggregate bjig of big gatm ru Into the Uiousands. IleKldwi fconriug Africa, ho made n 1,000-iullt tour of Alnskn hunting uiooso nnd carl bou. Scions Is nsnnl'" m- rctlltcd with hnv Ing been the In ion for Sir lllder IIiiggnrd'H "Alb,, oatcnnaln," "Allan Quntermaln's V,.iV,' nnd "King Solo-icon's Solo-icon's nines." |