22 AUGUST 1914, Page 14

THE CORPS OF GUIDES.

(To THE EDITOR 01 THE "SPTCTATOH.•'7

am very glad to see that you approve the enlisting of fresh Guides in far country districts, and I am sure you would have liked to review our twenty Guides who assembled here to shoot with the miniature rifle last Saturday—a fine lot of hard riders over the moorlands, farmers and game- keepers, most of them too old to go to the front, but ready to make themselves useful at once, as, for example, in guarding the big reservoir up the valley, for a "mem." from the Chief Guide this morning says: "Guides are required to guard waterworks," and so here is a chance of our making ourselves useful.—I am, Sir, &c., A NORTHUMBRIAN DISTRICT GUIDE.