BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT
STATISTICS OF PROGRESS (A.P.A. and "Sun.") (Received 28th January, 2 p.m.) • LONDON, 27th Jan. r'lf the movement needed additional encouragement, it exists in the recent declaration of war on Boy Scouts by Communists who have recognised that our building up of loyal, sensible citizens is detrimental to their effort to pervert youth," said Sir Robert Baden Powell at the annual meeting of the Boy Scouts' Association. Scouts throughout the Empire number 582,223, an increase of 61,076. Last year 1,711,643 Scouts were training in forty-two countries throughout the world. The Duke of York's visit to Australia and New Zealand gave a great fillip to'the movement. The report emphasises that Scouts from all over the world will gather in England to celebrate the movement's coming of age by a twenty-first jamboree in 1929. Sir R. Baden Powell read the King's message, saying: "The enrolment of millions of youths throughout ' the world, inspired with high ideals, is a triumjfial advance towards the promo- | tion of international brotherhood."
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 23, 28 January 1928, Page 10
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