The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1922-08-04
BLUE TIGER HAS
CHINESE EXCITED
Parties Organize To Hunt Out Beast
That Has Carried OFF
Many Children.

tn Canton, July 2s.-The mysterious
"Blue Tiger Of Annoy" Is causing
much excitement in China and every
one from Roy Chapman Andrews to
missionaries and business men with
ieanings toward adventure who have
tried to kill OF capture him have
failed.
That there is a tiger with blue and
black stripes of unusual size has been
established without a doubt, for ne
has been seen by many persons and
has been known to carry off several
native children every year.
Roy Chapman Andrews, ] am told,
organized a special party to capture
the rare specimen of tiger, but altho
he had a glimpse of the famous beast
he was unable to carry back his skin
tn New York. Any number OF local
parties have spent days trying to Kill
him. but the blue tiger is very clever
and seems to know instinctively when
he is trailed.
Last summer he was unusually fe-
rocious and swooped down upon the
mainland, carrying off children, 10
the terror of the Chinese. This year
unusual efforts are to be made to
capture him.
Tigers Are FerociOus.
The tigers are unusually fierce in
this section of China and swim over
from the mainland to Annoy, capture
n child and swim away before they
can be shot by the Chinese.
When tiger is seen an alarm is
given and the members of the for
eign community get up a search par
ty. There is an unwritten law in the
Annoy, Club that any member who
comes into the club and reports hav-
ing seen tiger without having kill
ed him must buy all the members
present a drink-usually WHISKY
But il he sees and kills the tiger and
brings the skin to the club-his club
expenses for the month are paid by
the other members.
The steamer Soochow locked Tor
a few hours at Annoy on the trip from
Shanghai to Canton, and an old-tim-
er in Annoy told us tale about the
China tigers as we rode around the
picturesque bay in gayly painted pink
and blue and white sanpans, which
looked like gondolas.
There was one young fellow who
came to Annoy from America said
the old-timer, "and the East went
to his head. He became a regular
whisky-soda-c cocktail hound, and he
ran up large gambling debts. He had
no business playing bridge with the
old cutthroats of the port-but he
didn't know it.
Things went on from bad to
worse he owed hundreds of dollars,
was behind in his work, and the firm
.xhat had brought him out was about
ready to ship him nome.
zone day this young man went on
a walk up in the hills-for Annoy is
built in the hills on the island-and,
behind a large rock, found four tiger
cubs. He didn't say a word to the
bows at the club. but the next day he
started out with his gun. He went
ND near the rock to wait for the par
ent tiger.
Waited for Hours.
He waited for hours, and when
the tiger finally returned to her CUBS
she was carrying little Chinese boy
in her mouth. The young man shot
and killed the tiger and found that
the little boy was still living. he
killed the four cubs and started down
the trail carrying the boy.
when nearly down he met party
on a tiger hunt. The Chinese boy
was the only son of wealthy Chi
nese who was most valuable con-
nection for the firm with which the
young American was connected. SO
everything ended happily--the CLUB
members were game and paid up the
young mans back club chits as re-
ward for killing the tiger; the firm
head gave him a talking to and rails
ed his salary, and the wealthy old
Mandarin gave him large reward
foc saving his SON"
Today we were told the young man
is one of the most successful men in
South China.
The tigers of Foochow, Amov and
Canton are 10 joke, and OF all the
tigers the great blue tiger is the
most famous A large reward has
been offered for his capture.-tBy
Edna Lee Booker in Louisville Her
aid.
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