The Archive · 1936

King Edward Viii as a Piper

Plays in Band with Pipers Known in Shanghai Justo when anecdotes. of re being told and re= told, particular interest attaches Scois in Shanghai to His Majesty' visit, before kis father's death, to the Scottish Pipers Society, While there, he met and played with,—amongs ethers, Mr. Colin F. Hoxiy and Mr. d, respectively a son and nephew of Mr. George Hoy, so well-known in Shanghai, and also, J.B, Ross. Mr. Caird is acknow leaved to be one of the best amateur pipers in Mr. Ross, who was Mercantile Bank in Shanghai, also Is an excetionally' fine piper: "Ie used to play the band of the Shanghai Scotts and he was one of the prime mover in the formation of the now defunet—. or perhaps only moribund—Skangh Pipers Society,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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