ECHO OF FEUDS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3642, 24 May 1927, Page 1

ECHO OF FEUDS

HIGHLAND SPIRIT STIRS

“A CAMERON TO A CAMPBELL.”

LONDON, May 7. The historic feuds of the Highland clans have been revived by the Inver* ness County Council discussing a proposal to annex portion of Inverness to Argyllshire in connection with electricity and aluminium development schemes, the Argyll County Council having formally applied to the Secretary for Scotland for permission to include the area indicated. The fruition of the scheme would mean the establishment of an important new village in Lochaber in the shadow of Ben Nevis, and on the scone of the decisive battle of Inverlocliy in 1645, in which the Marquis of Montrose, with the Camerons and the Macdonalds, beat the Clan Campbell under the Duke of Argyll. Colonel Donald Cameron of Lochiel, in a speech at the Inverness Council, said the Argyll invaders had been taught a salutary lesson at Inverlochy, and if the Clan Campbell persisted in the application it would receive another salutary lesson, though perhaps not bloodily. He added that the proposal was the most outrageous example of territorial aggression on the part of one county against another witnessed for five centuries. The Dukes of Argyll were breeding to type, showing all the predatory instincts of their ancestors. The Mackintosh of Mackintosh said Lochiel had spoken as a Cameron to a Campbell. He had never heard a better speech. Lochiel, replying, said the Mackintoshes and the Camerons were a match for the Campbells any clay. Later. Colonel Cameron, of Lochiel, is anxious that the public should know that he has never attacked the Duke of Argyll personally, and that he had no idea of associating him with the predatory schemes of the Argyll Council. Tlie Marquis of Montrose commenced the year 1645 by raiding Argyllshire, and when February opened lie was on his way back to Aberdeen, followed by an army under the Duke of Argyll. Near the present village of Inverlochy, although he had only 1800 men, he turned on his pursuers and routed them, it being said that the Campbells and their allies had 1700 men killed.