Aylmer Express Newspaper
The British War Office Has Permitted Them.
The Scotch regiment won’t give up their kilts. They have reluctantly permitted the War Department to take away from them their plaids and their brightly colored banners and to substitute khaki for Highland hues, but they’ve got to be khaki kilts, not khaki trousers.
In these days of high-powered guns and scientific warfare when all the old-fangled fashions in fighting have been thrown away and not even a band or a fife and drum corps can get onto a battlefield, the Scotch regiments still hang to their bagpipers, or at least their bagpipers hang to them. No English regiments will fight to music in the war, but the English War Office didn’t count the bagpipe as a musical instrument, much to the delight of the Scotch-fighting men.
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