Here are' four of the young Turkish girl fliers who were to have taken part in the fight of Squadron of bombing planes from Istanbul to the capitals of Burope next month. The bombers were to have been "manned" by the girl pilot officers and. commanded by Lieutenant Sabiha Guektchen, one of the adopted daughters of the late President Kemal Ataturk. Miss Guektchen, known as the "Purkish Flying Amazon," tg chief instructress of the Government organization which is forming reserve of officers for th Turkish air forces. should do well, It needs the pen of Charles Lamb to do justice to their charms.
Like everything else the. cost shooting grouse has gone up terrifically, Within living memory, thou fands of acres in western Scotland ould be rented for £100 a year (so the "Dally Telegraph says), Now by popular legend every grouse shot costs the owner, or renter, of the oer, a pound, "And still in his lust {or more and more grouse he over-ouches himself. Hawks,—stoats, weasels, whatever may conceivably rey upon young grouse, are relentlessly destroyed, So there are too many grouse and through over-erowding they got the fatal grouse disease. Some of the moors, once of the best, are barren of birds this year. When will countrymen, whi ought to know more of these things than anybody, learn not to interfere with Nature's balance I fear we shall have to pay more than ever this year for grouse.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.