BOYS FROM SCOTLAND.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 217, 12 September 1940, Page 10

BOYS FROM SCOTLAND.

AIR RAID "VETERANS." MATTER-OF-FACT ATTITUDE. WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Veterans of many air; raids were four sturdy young Scots, Alastair and lan McKay and James and Robe/t Hamilton, who were among -a party of British children who arrived in the Dominion from the Old Country. Their agee varied from 11 to 14 years. The boys w.ere conspicuous among 170 young travellers by their broad accents, their bonnets, kilts and sporrans, and their lively, cheerful dispositions. They were accompanied-fcy their mothers, and were going to friends in various parts of the Dominion, the Hamiltons to Auckland and the McKays to Dunedin. All came from Giasgow. "Aye, we've seen air raids," eaid Alastair. He said there had been air raids over Glasgow and afterward when they were in London shortly before they left England. "And what did you do? Go down into the shelters?" "No," the boy replied scornfully. "We just stayed in our beds." "Were you very frightened?" ; "Of course not," he disclaimed indignantly. Hie reply was stated to be typical of the brave and matter-of-fact attitude of the youth of Britain to German frightfulness. '~~ -■•-■ --