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SCOTTISH MOORS.

PERTHSHIRE IN PEACE TIME.

Which regiment wore the most V.Cs during the war? The Perth, Aug. 16.-Scotland has Weekly Dispatch is able to publish always been a land of contrasts. for the first time the exact figures. This season it maintains its re- It has supplied from War Ofice lists.putation in that respect. It will be seen that the Lanca- just passed through its lean years, hurried shire Fusiliers, mainly owing to when its young men

down from the far-flung bills and their gallant exploits in Gallipoli campaign, easily hold pride of place.

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The firs: three are:- Lancashire Fusiliers (17) ...I Rifle Brigade (10)) Royal Fusiliers (10)) Yorkshire Regt. (10)) Royal Lancs Regt. (9)1 Manchester Regt. (9)) Taking the war through, the V.C. was distributed very con-

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isles to leave mourning and pride behind them as they went to battle. It was unpeopled on farm and moor. Now it is renascent with all the vigour of the race, and vast throngs of tourists and sportsmen have come to revisit the mountains and lochs and glens.

In the five years it seems as if rae bad grown among the heather sistently, as the following list for contrast sake. The moors: will show:-

have suffered through neglect. Eight V.C.S.-Highland Light | but still their billows of bloom Infantry, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, and Yorkshire Light Infantry. Lon-battlements doa Regiment.

rocks-the cloud-capped of Nature serve well to recall days of sport which Seven V.C.s.-East Surrey Re-have not yet returned to the full. giment, Border Regiment, Grena- In parts the grouse suffered by: dier Guards, Worcester Regiment. late frost and disease. When one Seaforth Highlanders.

Colds- passes through Blairgowrie with treall Guards, King's Royal its fields of raspberries. on the

road. through Glenshee Braemar, there is a philosophic sadness about the news from the

Rifles.

Six V.C.s.-Durham Light In- fantry, Warwickshire Regiment, Royal Scots. Bedford Regiment, South Wales Borderers, West Riding Regiment, Liverpool Res giment, Northants Regiment. "

Five V.C.s-Notts and Derby Regiment, Middlesex Regiment, Scots Guards, Northun:berland

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moors. On those of the North and South Persie, the Corb and Glenshee sport has been poor patchy."

SO far and quite

The birds are fewer than in 1918, and et places are wild. Grouse are capricious, and even moody, and at times hundreds of Four V.C.s.-South Staffs. Re-old birds set the bad example of How- packing" prematurely. giment, Bosal Sects Fusiliers,

Fusiliers.

King's Own Scottish Borderers, ever, these moors still provide a Argyll and Sutherland High-considerable nuinber of black landers, Yorks

Lancs, game.

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Blue harés, too, bare When gillies and

Regiment, West Yorkshire Re-multiplied. giment, East Yorkshire Regi-keepers were at the wars the ment, North Staffs Regiment, guns spared the life of many a South, Lanes Regiment, Leinster hare, because of the labour of Regiment. Royal Munster Fusi- carrying him. There were for- liers, Irish Guards, Tank Corps, merly capercailzie to be shot in Black Watch,

such woods as Balmyle, but here Three V.C.s-Royal Berks Re- again one cannot resist regretful giment, Army Chaplains: Depart-comparison with other days. Tim- inent, Leicester Regiment, Gorber was needed for France, and so don Highlanders, Royal Dublin the lofty fire and larches which Fusiliers, Welsh Regiment, Lin-capercailzie demand for habita- colnshire Regiment, East Lancstions have been felled. It was an Regiment, Gloucester Regiment, experience unusual in Scotland, Royal Irish Rifles, Queen's Royal and for that matter perhaps in West Surrey Regiment, Sussex any country, to shoot capercailzie Regiment, Cameron Highlanders, and roe deer within sound of a Royal North Lance Regiment, vandal sawmill. It makes men Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). fear that these birds may once Among units of the Imperial again become extinct in Scotland. Sport is not good on these moors, Forces other than infantry and cavalry the Royal Engineers come though in the neighbourhood of

better. first with 15 V.C.s, the Royal Aberfeldy it is

The been remarkable. Field Artillery with 14. the drought bas Royal Air Force with 13, the The rowans, laden with biog R.AM.C. with 8. the Machine by the road, are drooping; the Gun Corps with 4, Royal Horse ferns Artillery with 3, and the R.A.S.C. and R.G.A. with 1 each.

In the Colonial Forces Australia takes pride of place. Canada being close on her heels. The placings are:

Australià (63) Canada (60)

India (17)

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New Zealand (11)...4. South Africa (4) ...5. The Royal Navy was awarded 23 V.Cs, the R.NR. 12, and the R.N.V.R. 7. One each was obtained by the old R.N.AS, and Royal Marine Light Infantry. and 2 by the Royal Marine Artillery:

GENERAL NEW.

"DRY" DAY AT DOUGLAS.

ата parched, and only the yellow ragweed seems to thrive in avidity. The rivera are dry, and the heather pollen. Covers one's legs like the dust of a highway, and acts as snuff on the dogs' nostrils. Parts of the Tay have quite creamed and mantled, like a standing pond, and fish have perished.

But if sport is variable and even, bad, this part of Scotland offers its compensations. The air retains its sparkle. The mount- ains, though bereft by sunshine of their mists, throb with the lights and shadows of every line of purple and green and brown, and frown and smile and twinkle, and then threaten. It is an elixir of new life that they'dis- pense hourly,

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Paris, Thursday, August 25.- The destruction of material owned by the American Ex- peditionary Forces in France is receiving particular attention from the War Expenditures Investigation Committee of Con- gress, which to-day inquired inte the burning of $1,000,000 worth Jof aviation stock at Colombey-In- Belle and the destruction of motor vehicles at Romartie, of which the French have com- plained officially.

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