BOY SCOUTS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 264, 3 August 1929, Page 11

BOY SCOUTS

UNDER CANVAS IN STORMY WEATHER PRINCE OF WALES SPENDS NIGHT IN CAMP (British Official Wireless-) Kugby, August L Although the weather during the last f»w days has been stormy, 50,000 Socats in canvastown remain extremely cheerful, and the boys of 40 nations have already reached terms of friendly intimacy. The Prince of Wales is flying to Birkenhead from London today, and will stay under canvas in the Scouts’ camp to-night. BARONY CONFERRED ON BADEN-POWELL Rugby, August 1. The King has approved that the dignity of a barony be conferred unpon Lieutenant-General Sir Robert BadenPowell, founder of the Boy Scout movement, which is at present holding a great International jamboree at Birkenhead. Sir Robert Baden-Powell gained fame in the South African War as the defender of Mafeking. It was in 1908 that he founded the Boy Scouts with the object of promoting good citizenship in the rising generation. .

BOYS’ INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP AMERICAN BANKER STARTS FUND (United Press Association.— By Electric Telecraph.—Copyright) (United Service.) (Rec. August 2, 9.50 p.m.) London, August 2. While the Prince of Wales is at Arrow Park he will rough it with his fellow scouts. His tent is pitched on a strip of lawn shaded by trees in front of Arrow Hall. It contains only a camp bed, washstand, table, and chair. General Baden-Powell, who will be the Prince’s equerry, will have his tent alongside. Mr. Mortimer Schiff, a millionaire American banker and vice-president of the American Boy Scouts, handed the Prince of Wales a' cheque for £lO,OOO to establish a fund for the promotion of a Boys’ International Fellowship, which the Chief Scout will direct from London. The newspapers pay tribute to General Baden-Powell’s peerage as a fitting climax to twenty-one years’ service in the Boy Scout movement, making his name a household word throughout the ■world.