THE BOY SCOUTS.

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17885, 4 December 1929, Page 13

THE BOY SCOUTS.

WILL TO PEACE. GERMAN BOYS IN BRITAIN. A SCOUTMASTER’S LETTER.” In the following letter In the London Daily Mail a German Scoutmaster tells of the warm welcome he received everywhere when he toured England after the great Scout Jarrmoree at Arrowe Park, Birkenhead, and of the -4 strong will to peace and friendship ; which he found everywhere. ‘ \ “I am a German Scoutmaster who| has been touring round Scotland and Wales after having beenA with his troops at the Jamboree. "During the long time of my hiking? and tramping in Great Britain I have SJ had a lot of interesting meetings and thrilling adventures in all parts of the country, but nothing struck me more than the strong will for peace and friendship with Germany whloh I met everywhere among the, people. “Having never used any train or omnibus since the Jamboree, I dare say that I have met quite a lot of people, and that I certainly have made more acquaaintances and won more experience than if I would have spent plenty of money. I had about 70 lifts from Birkenhead down to Southampton and back again from Portsmouth to Liverpool, and further on to the Lake District and up to Scotland through Glasgow and Edinburgh as far as Inverness. “It does not matter whether it was ” the Welsh farmer in his cottage at the foot of Snowdon or the fishmonger ' in the Lake District, the unemployed in Liverpool docks, or the farm boy . in Moffat, the lorry driver in Manchester or the lad in London’s East End, the chief of one of the greatest Scottish clans or the sailors in the Salvation Army Naval and Military Home at Portsmouth, nearly everybody had a strong desire to obtain peace in the future. “It does not matter how they expressed their feelings: whether they said the war should never have happened—the war was a rotten thing—the war was the folly of mankind—or simply the battle has spoiled everything—war is no good. “Lord Rothermcre is quite right G when lie says in the first souience >jf his article in the Daily Mail; Germany quite definitely does mean peace. It impresses me deeply that I find the same feelings not only among most of the English diplomats but also among the people, and that/is why I write to you, the greatest British newspaper, as we think in Germany, and friend to Scouts, too, it seems to my mind. "I beg to excuse my school English, which may be rather bad in some expressions, but I am sure that you wUl rT understand what I want to tell you." ,