BOY SCOUTS

Evening Star, Issue 19777, 30 January 1928, Page 5

BOY SCOUTS

f A WORLD MOVEMENT Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 27. “Jf wo needed additional encouragement it exists in the recent declaration of war on Boy Scouts by the Communists, who recognise 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.

The Scouts throughout the Empire number 582,223, an increase of (50,076 on last year, and 1,711,643 are training in forty-two countries throughout the world. The visit of the Duke and Duchess of York to Australia and New Zealand gave a great fillip to the movement.

Sir Robert Baden-Powell emphasised that Scouts throughout the world will gather in England to celebrate the movement’s coming of age at the twenty-first jamboree in 1929, and he read the King’s message saying that the enrolment of millions of youths in the world inspired with high ideals is a triumphal advance towards the promotion of international brotherhood.