PRELUDE TO THE NEWS.
It has boon suggested says the “Manchester Guardian,” that Drake’s Drum should be fetched from the silence of Buckland Abbey and taken, amid an appropriate quantity of hush-hushery, to wherever it is that the 8.8.C.’s news is given to the air. Then, soundly beaten by a firm hand, its tattoo ♦would make a fitting prelude to the news. Since the Bow Bells effect was abandoned, the solemn tick-toek which lias called us to hear the best or worst of the day’s history has certainly seemed neither gallant nor inspiring. We might well substitute a whole series of famous instruments of music, from the horn of John Peel, if anybody knows where it is, to the most famous battle-pipes of Scotland; we should include, if possible lest favouritism to Devon be implied, Balaclava’s trumpets and L'm bugles of Waterloo.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 302, 28 September 1940, Page 4
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