During the ensuing verbal spat, several Indonesian demonstrators broke into the Embassy compound, and burnt the Union Jack and Ambassador Gilchrist's car. When Ambassador Gilchrist finally agreed to meet a delegation from the demonstrators, their exchange only added more fuel to the tension. The Ambassador did nothing to conceal his disdain for the Indonesians, taunting them with the "That's Your Mob' and, as they departed, "Long live U Thant", the–then United Nations Secretary General. Gilchrist also complained that the Indonesian police did little to disperse the Indonesian demonstrators and disputed the Indonesian demonstrators' account that Walker's bagpipe playing had preceded the stone throwing, and that the British behavior had been unnecessarily provocative. According to the British historian Matthew Jones, contemporary news reports of the confrontation at the British Embassy only reinforced the widespread Indonesian perception that the British diplomats had adopted an arrogant and condescending attitude to ordinary Indonesians who were concerned about developments within their region.