Firstly, Mr. Jordan has no game reservations in Africa, North 
South, East or West. North and West Africa have no reservations whatever. 
There is The Soudan Game Reservation, a Government monopoly. This Reservation sells the 
animals to the highest bidders. In East Africa game is fully protected, and licences are 
required for export. Mr. Jordan, I presume , refers to a strip of land near the Congo Mataddi 
Railway on which he has held an option for some years, I believe he acquired this option on his 
last journey down the Congo. Anyway this matter could be easily settled by enquiring at the 
Congo Administration Offices in Brussels. This particular part of the Congo is not "an 
animal reserve," for the very good reason that whatever animals were there originally 
have moved back during the building of the railway and the exploitation of the country by settlers. 
Even there the Elephants, if any, are protected. There is not a Hippopotamus, Rhino- 
ceros or Giraffe within hundreds of miles of the Congo property. 
Here is a chaSlengS to this Zoological Company. 
For every live and fully trained African Elephant they land in Great Britain within the 
next two years, I will be willing to give to any Public Charity they like to name, the sum of 
//io, for every Rhinoceros £10, for every Hippo and Giraffe £5. 
Finally if they ever sell a Python for £"100 within the two years, £5 to such Charity. 
Lions are bred in this country — Chimpanzees arrive weekly and monthly. 
Here is the choicest bit of all from the " National News," January 19th, 1919 — 
LIONS: £250 EACH. 
Rush to Supply the World's Depleted " Zoos." 
NEW BRITISH INDUSTRY 
Anyone wanting a full-grown, newly-captured male lion can have one for £250, or a couple 
of very savage leopards by paying £-15 or £50. If something larger is desired, a three-quarters 
grown, trained Elephant may be had for £800, while those whose accomodation is limited are 
able to obtain love-birds as cheaply as 5s. each. Amusement by a Chimpanzee is possible for 
£100, which sum will buy a trained animal of that species. 
These are just a few prices taken from the catalogue of the World's Zoological Trading 
Company, which has come into being as a result of the war, and which is a novel enterprise 
floated to capture trade in wild beasts and other living creatures from the Germans. Prior to 
the war wild beasts went to Hamburg from all parts of the World, but now they have lost their 
Colonies the Germans have no sources from which they can draw supplies 
There is, however, a higher reason for the passing of this trade from the hands of the 
Huns. They are not sportsmen, nor are they humane, whereas the new Company has been 
formed by a band of British sportsmen and naturalists, all of whom are great lovers of animals, 
and they are capturing specimens of the wild fauna of the earth on new and scientific lines, 
instead of half starving the animals and confining them in unhealthy back yards, as was 
frequently done by the Germans. 
"The aim of the new company,'" according to one of the founders, a well-known South 
African sportsman who has spent the greater part of his life hunting and trapping all over the 
country, " is not to destroy wild life, but to preserve it. There is no animal that it is not pos- 
sible to capture alive and at least partly tame, so that it can live, in captivity." 
