PRINCE OF WALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21804, 19 May 1934, Page 8

PRINCE OF WALES

FEW HOURS IN GLASGOW SCOUTS AND SHIPYARD DOG LOST AND FOUND [from our owk correspondent] LONDON, April 17 The Prince of "Wales, who is Chief Scout of Wales, travelled North by night train especially to open a Bov Scouts' exhibition in Glasgow. Ten thousand Scouts of Scotland gave him one of the greatest welcomes and most surprising evenings of his life. Kilted pipers played him into the Kelvin Hall. A huge audience of Highland kilted Scouts. Girl Guides and the general public sang "God Bless the Prince of Wales" and cheered the Prince with weird Scout calls and deafening booravs. When he arrived at the hall he wore a kilt of his own tartan ; as Duke of Rothsay with his Scout uniform. 1 The Prince spent so lone with, the boys inspecting the exhibition and speaking that he had no time for dinner before joining the night train again for London. He appealed for more Scout leaders, remarking: "The Scout movement; is one that can have a wonderful influence, particularly in a city like Glasgow and a district like Clydeside, where the younger generation is having to hring itself up, so to speak, among the greatest difficulties. "Glasgow needs more Scout leaders. I would appeal to young business men to give up occasional evenings to run Scout troops, and even camps in the summer, because I think to get -into close touch with the younger generation of Glasgow will be of value to them, and in this wav even further troops could be formed." Need lor Financial Help Scouting, said the Prince, was very well worthy of financial support. . It was not an expensive game, but it did need financial help, and money contributed toward the movement would be very well spent. On the morning of arrival, immediately after breakfasting with Lord Weir, the Prince paid a surprise visit to Messrs. John Brown's yard at Clydebank, where he inspected the hull of the giant Cunard liner No. 534, on which work was recently resumed. Lord Weir and Sir Godfrey Thomas (equerry) accompanied him. His car passed through the workmen's entrance to the company's offices with Sir Thomas Bell, managing director of the company, who bad been informed by telephone from the yard gates that the Prince had arrived. Sir Thomas conducted the Prince round the ship. The Prince talked with a number of men, who told him that they were delighted to be back at work again. The Prince asked the men many questions and remarked to the officials that it was indeed gratifying to . see the yard so busy. His Royal Highness was heartily cheered as he drove away. Mr. Jack" Maclean, the Scottish and Irish amateur golf champion, had luncheon with Lord Weir and friends at Eastwood, and afterward the Prince and Mr. Maclean Dlayed a round of golf on the East Renfrewshire links. Story of the Lost Terrier The Prince left for Glasgow with a considerably perturbed mind, for his valuable silver grey cairn terrier "Jaggs" was missing from Fort . Belvedere, the Prince's country home in Windsor Great Park. He helped in the search up to the time he had to leave for his train. After two days "Jaggs" was restored to his owner. Mrs. M. Bishop, a London woman, staying in Southampton, picked up the dog at Sunningdale when driving with her husband. "The dog was in the traffic and looked likely to get run over," she said. " As I am a dog lover I caught him. He was terrified and bleeding from the mouth. He had no collar, and I decided to take him to Southampton. When I read in the newspapers about the Prince's loss I telephoned to Fort Belvedere. Then a Southampton police officer visited me, and the dog was taken to the police station." . ; . "Jaggi>" spent the night in a police cell on a blanket and was given a good moal. In the morning he was transferred to a loose box in the police stable, where his companion was "Warrior," a 26-year-old police horse, which served m the war at the Battle of Mons. He waited there until the Prince's servant arrived to take him home. .