SCOUTS' JAMBOREE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21561, 4 August 1933, Page 9

SCOUTS' JAMBOREE

OPENING IN HUNGARY PRESENCE OF THE FOUNDER ORGANISATION'S GOOD WORK ACHIEVEMENTS BY BOYS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received August 3. 6.55 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 2 A message from Budapest states that the Regent of Hungary, Admiral Horthy, to-day inaugurated the fourth World Scout Jamboree. Twenty-one thousand Scouts paraded, representing 37 nations, A British official wireless message states that Lord Baden-Powell, Chief Scout, has reached Goedoelloe, Hungary, to attend the jamboree. Among the Scouts is a British Empire contingent of 2500, comprising 34 groups from Britain, the Dominions and colonies. This contingent is headed by BrigadierGeneral Godfrey Fanshett.

Every preparation was made by the organising committee to make tho jamboree, which is to last two weeks, as successful as that held in England in 1929. A flying field has been made ready for eight aeroplanes and 24 gliders. A special narrow-gauge railway has been laid down, artesian wells have been sunk and a theatre, a cinema and shops have been erected. Special trains will run to Budapest daily. Lord Baden-Powell will stay till August 12, when he will lead 600 Boy Scout and Girl Guide officers on a cruiso to Scandanavia. He said yesterday that since the foundation of the movement 25 years ago British Boy Scouts had saved the lives of 2220 persons, rendered first aid in 327,000 cases and extinguished 140,000 fires. The Scouts, said Lord Baden-Powell, worked for world peace. The recent World Conference of old men had failed. Now youth must show that it could succeed.