Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1920 — CANADIANS WARN DENMARK [ARTICLE]

CANADIANS WARN DENMARK

Demands Cessation of Oxen Slaughter by the Eskimos. Ottawa, July 16. —Alleged slaughter by Danish Eskimos from Greenland of musk oxen on Ellesmere Island, far north Land, has brought a protest -frofiF Canada, a claim to the Island a threat to establish a mounted police post there. Eskimo hunting expeditions caused the Canadian government to establish a closed season and the British government now has been asked to Inform Denmark of Caanda’s intention to assert her sovereignty If necessary.