VALUE OF BOY SCOUTS
A GENERAL'S TESTIMONY. "Had some of our officers been Boy Scouts as young folk, the thing would have boon a success." At tbe 'Anzao ceremony at Roseneath, Corporal E. J. F. Aldrich said that ho heard a general of the British Army say these words in referring to tho Suyla Bny disaster. Ho wished to emphasise thn value of school drill, esdet drill, and Boy Scout work, and said that the training'of the colonial boy—the open-air life and drill—stood him in good stead as a soldier. In referring to "big thins** at Silvia Bay, Corporal Aldrich said that the British troops were bravo enough, but coming from tho factories and narrow streets of crowded cities, they did not know the way of open places. If they could see their objective they would make it, but if it were hidden round a corner tho chances wero that they would loso it.' That was what' tho goneral meant when ho ppoko of tho experience that a Boy Scout training gave a boyone that ho novor forgot as a man.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 186, 26 April 1918, Page 5
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181VALUE OF BOY SCOUTS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 186, 26 April 1918, Page 5
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