BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22023, 4 August 1933, Page 9

BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT

WORLD JAMBOREE OPENED HUGE CROWD ON PARADE. BUDAPEST, August 2. Admiral- Horthy (the Regent) inaugurated the fourth world jamboree. Twenty-one thousand Scouts paraded, representing 37 nations. ■ CHIEF SCOUT IN CAMP. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 3. (Received August 3, at 5.5 p.m.) Lord Baden-Powell, the Chief Scout, has reached Gocdoclloc, Hungary, to attend the World Scout Jamboree, which is being opened to-day. Among the 30,000 Scouts from all parts of the world is the British Empire contingent of 2500, comprising 34 groups from Great Britain and the dominions and colonies, headed by Brigadier-general Godfrey Fanshctt. Every preparation has been made by the organising committee to make the jamboree, which will last for two weeks, as successful as that held in England in 1929. A flying field has been built for eight aeroplanes and 24 gliders, a special narrow gauge railway has been laid down, artesian wells have been sunk, a theatre, a kinema and shops have been erected, and special trains will run to Budapest every day. Lord Baden-Powell will stay till August 12, when he will lead 600 Boy Scout and Girl Guide officers on a cruise to Scandinavia. He said yesterday that since the foundation of the movement 25 years ago British Boy Scouts have saved the lives of 2220 persons, have rendered first aid in 327,000 cases, and have extinguished 140,000 fires. Scouts, he said, worked for world peace. The recent World Conference of old men failed, and now youth must show that it could succeed.