SCOUTS' WORLD JAMBOREE.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19622, 18 May 1929, Page 3

SCOUTS' WORLD JAMBOREE.

PRINCE OF WALE£ TQ .PARTICIPATE. ii't'-SU OUR flU* eORtUWOWDBMT.) LONDON, April 5, It is »ftnoun<?es that H.Jt.JJ. the Princij of -Wales, besides attending a rally and march past of the nations at the Boy Scouts* coming of age celebrations at Arrcwe Park, Birkenhead, in July and August, will spend the night of August Ist under canvas with iiin fifty thousand brother from the forty-two nations of the world, which have adopted scouting for boys. When the Priucc took p.urt in the Boy Beout Jamboree at Wembley iu 1P24 he delighted some twenty thoua. and Scouta, when daring a camp Are sing song, he sprang up from big log seat, threw his blanket from his shoulders and joined with abandon ia a wild Highland reel. This year, in addition to the massed Highland dancing of some sixteen hundred Scottish Seouts there will bo massed displays of Old English folk dancing by the Steouts of English counties. In all parts Scouts are busily learning gueh old favourites as Black Nag, Bellinger's Bound, Nancy's Fancy, Gathering Peascods, and We W§n't Go Home Till Morning. With the example of the Chief Scout and Chief Guide, Sir Bobort and Lady Baden-Powell be. fore them—-they only a week or two ago taught their fellow passengers folk dancing aboard the Duchess of Rich, mond—the English Scouts can safely be relied on to put up a good show against their brethren from over the Tweed.