GOOD TURNS
Many waters cannot quench the spirit of the Boy Scouts of India. At Garakhpur. Aligarh, Bhadhara, and Mangaldai they followed in the track of the monsoon to save sufferers from it. At Garakhpur they risked their lives by taking boats through the surging torrents of overflowing rivers to rescue groups of people marooned among the ruins of their homes. At Aligarh, while on their way to perform the same service, they saw a river steamer on fire. After putting out the flames they went on, as if this were all in the day's work, to the rescue of some marooned villagers. At Bhadhara and Mangaldai many other villagers owed their lives to the boys, who, after doing their turns as rescuers, have now become hospital orderlies, to fight the malaria which follows tbo floods.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23281, 25 February 1939, Page 8 (Supplement)
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