HIGHLANDERS' DRUM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19765, 12 October 1927, Page 13

HIGHLANDERS' DRUM.

MONS AND A SEQUEL. GERMAN'S GRACEFUL ACT. LONDON, Oct. 1. One of the many romantic little incidents depicted in the epic war film "Moris," has had an even more romantic sequel. The film shows how, during the retreat, a drummer boy in the 2nd Battalion of the . Argyll and Sutherland .Highlanders, was hard pressed, and hid his drum in a bush at Le Cateau. Sir Tom Bridges, Governor of South Australia (then General Bridges), was rallying the stragglers, and when he saw the Highlanders without a drum he dashed into a nearby shop and secured a child's dram and a tin whistle. He himself beat the drum, while a piper played the whistle and stragglers' spirits were revived. The film shows the hiding of the drum and Sir Tom Bridges rallying the Highlanders with his child's toy. Herr Eiffe, a German from Hamburg, who is greatly interested in improving the relations between Britain and Germany, saw the film and was responsible for the romantic sequel. He reveals how advancing Germans found the hidden drum and how eventually it passed into his hands. Herr Eiffe, after seeing "Mons," offered to return the drum to the Highlanders, who gratefully accepted it.