Show birds fly from battle one of the war correspondents has noted the complete absence ot of birds from the battlefields of northern france and the consequent profusion of spiders and other cognate crawling things birds always desert scenes of 0 heavy gunfire and what is more they often do not return tor for many years all birds left the theater of war in south africa and it Is only now 14 years later that they are returning meanwhile south africa has suffered from a vexatious plague of ground insects teclos bechs ts as they call th them em over there it Is not supposed that abo african birds left the count country r y but that they merely retired to some remote mote and peaceful part of the veldt |