PRELUDE TO THE NEWS
It has been suggested, says the Manchester Guardian, that Drake’s Drum should be fetched from the silence of Buckland Abbey ahd 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 made a fitting prelude to the news. Since the Bow Bells effect was abandoned, the solemn tick-tock which has 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 and lest favouritism to Devon be implied. Balaclava’s trumpets and the bugles of Waterloo.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24420, 4 October 1940, Page 2
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143PRELUDE TO THE NEWS Otago Daily Times, Issue 24420, 4 October 1940, Page 2
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