14 JUNE 1946, Page 14

" NORTHBOUND "

SIR,—Did your printers begin their Victory Day celebrations prematurely? In " Marginal Comment " (June 7th) we read, " The bag-pipes swirled." Possibly ; but on normal occasions they skirl. And the author of that excellent article "Northbound " writes: " As the train drops down from Dalnaspidal to Newton Stewart." Quite a drop!. Two hundred miles, roughly. But perhaps Mr. Watson wrote "Dalnaspidal to Newtonmore."

—Yours faithfully, W. G. M. DOME. Conheath House, Clencaple, Dumfries.