Battle training as already reported is to take place in the near future in the North and North-East of Scotland. Naturally, according to the territorial extent of the area, the fact, while not resented, will bring with it, relatively an appreciable measure of unsettlement, inconvenience, and it may be real hardship. It will intensify warlike conditions where hitherto these may have been less appreciable. Other parts of the country have on a vaster scale, had the experience and have faced it with moor or less patriotic complacency. The North and North-East cannot and will not do less. Eleven hundred people (not eleven thousand as has been otherwise stated in error) have been ‘told to move on.’ Relatively, it is a small number, but the fact does not make it less unpleasant, nor less of a sacrifice to those whom it concerns. To them, it is as a bad dream come true. They leave their homes! Even those who have relatives, friends or not distant neighbours, who open their doors to them, will still have regrets, some of them poignant, particularly the aged, the halt or the .’married. Civil authorities, it is stated, will assist those who are displaced, and it can be assumed that this will be done in the fullest possible way Meantime, Central Authorities have been visiting the areas affected, supplementing the instructions with helpful advice. December 15 is the appointed date by which all who have been notified must inevitably ‘move out’.

Newspaper report about the evacuation of the village

Newspaper report about the evacuation of the village

Newspaper report about the evacuation of the village

Newspaper report about the evacuation of the village