3 MAY 1930, Page 20

STAG HUNTING

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR] Sia,—Major Darling says in the Spectator that I have "come into the open" on the question of stag hunting. I have never been anywhere else. He then asks, "Which constitutes torture, hunting for two hours or leaving the victim wounded for five weeks ? "

I have never advocated such an alternative. It is perfectly easy to round up the stags and destroy them mercifully, and I would rather their numbers were thus limited, or that they were thus exterminated, than preserved' to be ..hunted.—I am,• The Ford, Chobhant.