Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 175, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1920 — WAR ON CATS IN NEW YORK [ARTICLE]

WAR ON CATS IN NEW YORK

But Rats Need Not Rejoice for They Are Also Due for Extermination. New York.-—Plans to rid this city of thousands of cats, forced Into vagabondage by the stunner absence of their Owners, were announced by the department of health, which will be aided in the anti-cat crusade by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. ' The department, it was announced, will conduct a crusade to exterminate rats, particularly from incoming ships, as a preventive against bubonic plague. The holds of all incoming ships win be fumigated with cyanide gas. It was said.