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Show mZZ BAND TAKING PLACE OF BAGPIPES : LONDON". Oct 20. (By mall.) American Amer-ican sailors stationed In Scotch ports are i introducing ragtime dances in Scotland and jazz bands are displacing the bag- pipe at many social gatherings there, according ac-cording to Young Men's Christian association asso-ciation secretaries on duty with the i American naval forces. At one base the sailors, aided by Y. M. C. A. men, have requisitioned a hall In which they are dancing with the Scotch tjgfis to American airs, played by naval Worlds. ; jj These opportunities are leading to some weddings of American sailors to Scotch i girls. At one place the sailors and the I Scotch lassies were organized by an American actor Into a company which has Iproduced an American revue In the Y. M. j-" A. huts at the naval bases. |