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offensive persons, in defiance of all gentlemanly ethics and 

 common decency in sport, brazenly informed the officers of 

 the government that they had broken the law, and courted 

 arrest and trial. Much of the history of such cases is set 

 forth in the columns of the Sportsmen's Review, for 1914-15. 



In January, 1916, the need for the treaty had become real- 

 ly urgent. We decided to go after the document, wher- 

 ever it might be, and see what could be done about acceler- 

 ating its progress. 



By a fortunate circumstance it was about that time that 

 we came in touch with Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, Dominion 

 Entomologist of the Canadian Department of Agriculture, 

 and a powerful factor in the protection of wild life in Can- 

 ada. He assured us that Canada was quite ready to ratify 

 the treaty, and that as a matter of fact Canada had tenta- 

 tively approved the document, and had sent it to the United 

 States for some slight alterations that were rendered neces- 

 sary by the attitude of British Columbia and Nova Scotia. 

 In due course of time Dr. Hewitt furnished us with the date 

 on which the treaty had actually been sent to Washington ! 

 That date was June 7, 1915, and it was then February 4, 

 1916. 



For a period of nine months the treaty had absolutely been 

 lost to view! 



The Campaigning Trustee made a hurried trip to Wash- 

 ington. Beginning at the Capitol, it was quickly ascertained 

 that the treaty never had reached the Senate Committee on 

 Foreign Relations. At the Department of Agriculture noth- 

 ing was known of it, but it was believed to be in the State 

 Department. 



At the State Department the treaty was not in hand, and 

 a search of the files quickly revealed the fact that it had not 

 even been heard of during the previous 18 months. It then 

 seemed probable that the document was at the British 

 Embassy. 



A visit to the Embassy quickly brought about the dis- 

 covery of the missing treaty. Owing to a clerical accident 



