Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 175, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1915 — Vicious Wolves in France. [ARTICLE]

Vicious Wolves in France.

To talk of wolves in France seems absurd —a country that has been settled for 2,000 years, and has a population of 160 to the square mile. Yet in several of the departments tor counties, as we would call them) — notably in the Department of Yonne, in the heart of France —the wolves are extremely bold and enterprising. Two troopers, one day last spring, who were riding in company, came suddenly upon a huge wolf that, without the slightest hesitation, sprang upon the nearest horse. The soldiers dismounted and drew their sabers, expecting the wolf to turn tail, but he’ showed fight and but for the arrival of a farmer with a gun, who shot the animal, the republic might have lost two of her army. The combat would be thought nothing of in Russia, or even in this country, but in France —well, it shows how hard it is for man to exterminate the wild animals that infest the earth.