SKIRL OF THE PIPES
FEAR-STRICKEN DELEGATES General Sir lan Hamilton recently told a story of how the Gordon Highlanders' pipers scared the delegates at a World Economic Conference banquet, and were thanked by Mr Ramsay MacDonald for their services. Sir lan, who was presiding at the opening of the Gordon's new barracks at the Bridge of Don, Aberdeen, said that the 500 delegates were dining in London when, without warning, the Gordons suddenly entered and marched round the banqueting hall playing " Cock o' the North." For the moment the delegates wire terror-stricken, thinking that massacre was about to commence, and in the profound relief of disovering that this was an entertainment, became so amenable to the arguments of the'Prime Minister that Mr MacDonald wrote their colonel a letter praising the pipers for the excellent service they had rendered.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22721, 6 November 1935, Page 10
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