JAPS' WHA HAE.
MTILBOTTRNTS, January 14. A curious claim has been made bv one of the visiting Japanese naval men that "Auld Lang Syne ' is as much Japanese as it is Scotch. The imitative Japanese have borrowed melodies from the English, Scotch, Irish, French, and German, and have put their own words to the tunes. In the caso of "Auld Lang Syne," however, the translation shows that some of the spirit of Scotch song has been preserved. The Jajianese. wild courteously denied that the song was Scotch, maintained that the Scotch and Japanese originally were the sam<} race, and that the Scotch had preserved the melody from their old Japanese traditions. It was at the Japanese Language Society's outing that the claim was made.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 17983, 29 January 1924, Page 13
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