SCOUT JAMBOREE
CHIEF'S FAREWELL MESSAGE APPEAL TO BOYS TO REMEMBER CODE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright VOGELENSANG, August 9. (Bfeceived August 10, at 11 a.m.) “ Tho time has come to say goodbye. Some of us will never meet again. I am in my eighty-first year and near the end of my life. You are beginning yours.” Thus Lord Baden-Powell farewelled 28,000 Boy Scouts at the final march past. The main part of his speech was devoted to an appeal to the boys to remember the Scout’s code, which would help bring peace and goodwill. He told them they would hear war talk, but they would know a better way of settling differences amicably. The jamboree closed to-night with a singsong around a gigantic camp fire.
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Evening Star, Issue 22723, 10 August 1937, Page 9
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123SCOUT JAMBOREE Evening Star, Issue 22723, 10 August 1937, Page 9
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