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PICTURESQUE KWANGSI.
HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH, JANUARY 12th, 1929.
Unusual rock formatiuus on the bank of the Fuh River, Kwangsi Province. They are fantastic ja shape and many of them rise ma- jestically right from the water's edge to a lofty height. Some claim that this used to be the site of a great inland sea."
FOUNDING THE BOY
SCOUTS.
FAMOUS SOLDIER TELLS OF EXPERIMENT.
By Si Rober: Baden-Powell.)*
Twenty-one years ago the acorn was planted in Brownsen Island, in Dorset, in the shape of a little group of 21 boya.
only in the United Kingdom but in most of the countries and Domin- ions over seas.
AN EARL'S PHILO- SOPHY.
MAKING THE REST OF LIFE.
Similarly, the man who daubs senti- ment over sordid realities is lacking in a sense of values...
One father sweet, if old-fashion- ed, virtue I would commend. It is modesty. In these days of glaring publicity and notoriety it would seem at a discount, but modesty will (By Lord Lonsinle.) How is a young man to make the always come into its own in the long best of his life?
On the other band, of course, it is not advisable to literally imitate the shrinking violet. My point is 4 tan may be the simply that eighth wonder of the world, but no ong will like him if he goes aroanil shouting the fact. And where is the gain if one is lonely?
Perhaps the first essential is that he should know himscif. To make for his own happiness and complete- ness he should be able to gauge his capabilities and his limitations.
He should have a sense of humor and wholesome adventure, a sense, tof values, and a inferation of „very, thing short of the intolerable.
Thus the training has bem These were taken from all grædes brought for the doors of the scout- and places. Eton, Harrow, ́Häst 'musters with a definite standard to Lombon, and village homes sent aim for and with the readiest steps. their sons, They were well sixed for,getting there. up and put into camp together to
Developments have gone an in learn things that is, ruh prae training the sening or Rover Segats, tising the life of buckwoodsmen and the arts of the jungle the picked whose duty it is to take up some up health of mind and spirit as well definite form of service for the us of body, and they learn the commuity. We have, too, our Sen great art of playing the game, of Seout branch; aul also, a branch playing to the rules with fairness dealing with the physically, mental- ; drop cricket because it is diffent. and good temper, and of playing for . and morally defective, whose the side and not for self.
participation in scouting is bring-
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It was a rough-and-readly exparing them a dew atmosphere of Aealth-aid.happiness-giving ovenpa- ment. In the hands of “buy meu”
tion. --that is, of leaders with sympathy and understanding-it ponned, out Our migration department is
success. One of thoses pioneer, placing over 89 boys a month in beti lenders in that absurd adventure is er openings overseas than they till one of the veteran lelors in would find within the limits of the its big advance, Mr. P. W. Everett, -old enuntry.
A cheap explanatory handbook" More especially we are getting?
Life is not easy; im then, neither is cricket. The "rabbit" does not He loves the game too much.
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Moreover, he knows he will ulti- mately come out on top if he prac- tises keeping a straight bat. There, are quite a number of nasty balls to play in this game of life, but mastery of its techniqin, coupled with courage, will enable the young, man who is worth his salt to score
any boundary.
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Do not, then, be afraid of life. was next protinerd, Before many and of the shuni boy, and by de admit this is difficult in a post-war
age that dabbles so much, in morbid psybiology, but it is the orthodox healthy outlook that yields most satisfaction and contentment,
You are ambitious! You desire success! How best can you attain it? Why, by being sure first of all that you are qualified to make sue-
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That is not a matter of being brilliant: it is in having a capneity. for work. Please do not think I want to preseli. I want to inspire,
You will make mistakes, of course. We all do, and we should alf be grateful that we do, for it is only by our mistakes that we learn discrimination.
There is no need to feel that your education is inadequate. The out platitude that the Seasol of Life is the best is perfectly, true.
Success does not care a button whether you
are Oxford,' Cam- bridge, or Brick Alley Council Sea ut so long as you are made of the staff that determines to woo and win her. Strive to conquer bit do not stoop to crush.
Let your steed he shod with fire, but do not let it become overheated, And, of course, when success comes, you will be too much of a sport-loi forget those who helped you when you were in want.
Search for", the beauty in life. There is a good deal of it to be found if only one takes, the trouble tu look. Often this sensitive plant grows.beside much ugliness.
But that is only that we may learn comast. A sense of beauty will give the power of vision, which
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I am sure you will appreciate that one can always learn a little Bore. "How much I knew," says Sir Philip Gillis, "when I was try
I know ing to learn. How little now I have learnt so much more!"
Take stock of the other fellow's
viewpoint, and he will be more pre- pared to pay attention to yours. Be eareful you do not talk too wise, though, else he may think you over- Nor set yourself up to bearing. judge him in any particular, else he will think you a prig.
Chivalry, too, is a splendid quality. Do not think that because nanths were passed boy; in di¦veloping his character and abilities quality teaches one tolerance, un-
shining armour has gone out of ferent parts of the kingdom had are giving him hope and opportunderstanding, sympathy, and krepsated the world has no longer any fashion and dragons are extermin- been reading and had taken up ity for making his life a success. one from committing the one great wae for it. Woman may have scouting for themselves. Thus the
In Africa and India, Burns, Cay- sin of unkindness.
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shortened her sklít and shingled her hair, but if you treat her with consideration and chivalry in the little things you will be as singu |larly blessed us the knights of old,
for she will love you. Cherish sentiment, but not false sentimentality. The
You will give women a square man who boasts of being so "practical" is their faults, of course, so 1 do not deal, too, won't you? They have showing up the mental
poverty of his mean that you should flatter the sex and Spiritual outlook, aanerossarily,
What I mean is that one should refrain from misogyny and crying from the house-tops that women are "parasites" and so forth before experience of life has given one an opportunity of sorting the true from the false.
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start was automatic. And girls too lon, and the West Indies the boys These qualities, in their turn, will took it up to the extend that we had the country are linking up give you many friends. Friendship to form a special organization, the throne scouting in a new spirit of ង. អភ precious as the proverbial Girl Guides, for them.
understanding with their white bro- rubies. Thus from the one acurn there ther' subjects of the King. grew up untended a plant with two In these and other ways our tree stems; and the girl stem grew al-i is growing in bulk mid vahe. most faster than the other. So that; But beyond this also it has spread Her tree is to-day bigger by 90,000, its branches Car and wide until, in than that of the boys.
addition to the British Empire. Then came the war. The Scouts they overshadow some 42 foreign proved themselves.. Their services; countries and embrace a brother- One may see here a true League in const-watching, guarding com-hood numbering to-day a million of Nations in the making. A League rimunications, alarm pusts, Govern.and three-quarters of active mem-
where the spirit of good will from ment and hospital orderly duties, | bera, It in brotherhood
the heart prevails id not in etc., are too well known, to need re-something more than nume, since through fear-the dread of war.
brought about for protection petition. Ten thousand of them laid the boys interchange correspon-
| dence nad visits, Over 7,000 British The surviving members of the In spite of this blow, the oak tree Scouts are visiting their friends acorn of Brownsea Cadip of *1907 went on growing. It pushed its terass the Channel this summer, and are beginning to-day toʻrealize the roots, the deeper and more widely troops from five different countries | penomenal yet healthy growth to be proud. into the soll not only of England have recently been in England. which their tree has made in this but of the Empire as well. It de And this means millions more of short space of years. veloped itself a many dirpations, men in the population who have In August 1920 It will be possible The training centre for oflicers es bean trained as 'Scouts in the same to see the tree itself, for its mem- tablimbed at Gilwell Park, in ideals of mutual peace and good bera forgather then in their thou- Epping Forval, was unique in its will. These again.are backed by the sands from all the corners of the methods of education, and lus now Girl Guides with like alma among earth to celebrate the coming of supplied trained instructors able to the women voters and nation-lead-age of the happy family of the Boy form training camps for offker's noirs of the future
Scouts.
down their lives at the frant.
Then there is Patriotism. But oh, what crimes have been commit- ted in her name! Love your coun try because is a country of which
Wars fought with shot and shrapnel, human Bfe and human heartbreak, are neither patriotic nor romantic, neither honourable nor justifiable. It rests with every young man to-day to do his "little it" in realizing the utter horror and utter futility of human war- fare, and to fight against its con- tinuance with all his moral strength.
PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT.
AN “EMDEN” INCIDENT, AEROPLANE IN THE
HOW WIRELESS EQUIPMENT WAS SAVED.
BIBLE.
FRENCH SAVANT'S VIEWS.
Verse 4: And In those days sháll -- mon seek death, and shall not find It; and shall desire to die, and death shall deo from them.
St. John has cleverly chosen the locust in describing the aeroplane, as there is no flying insect that re sembles it so closely. He again res Many versions of the destrucA distinguished French savant fers to their method of attack tion of the German "Emden" M. Louis Barndue-Muller, after against human beings, the gas be have found their way into print, many years of study, has come to lng to put them hors de combat but no one has yet managed to
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clear up in a satisfactory manner the conclusion that the scourge of perhaps, but not to kill them.
Verso (in part); And the several important points. The loensis" which St. John saw in his
shapes of the locusta were like unto following version, is the story | Vision, and, described in the ninth of one who
horses prepared, unto battle, present, chapter of the Book of Revelation, and its authenticity is guar was actually the modern military The disciple compares the aero- Rinteed by the position he aeroplane, and the sting of the planes to horses because they were holds in British shipping gireles.locusts was the high explosive and powerful beasts which furnished Owing to the fact that some of the gas bombs which the neroplanes their own power of movement, and Information has up to now been drop,
“prepared unto battle" means mili carefully cherished as a secret of
tary instruments." war, the name of "the informant cannot be divulged:--
Verso 7 (in part): And on their hends were as it were crowns of Kold.
In other words, the beloved dia- riple had such a deep insight into the future that he foresaw this ter
• Rising at six ó'clock one morn-
rible instrumént of war more than ing to take a constitutional, an-
fficer attached to the Eastern 1.800 years agol·
He is extremely precise here, and Telegraph Station.on Caros Island, "If St. John's description of the instead of saying they wore erowns was surprised to see a four funnel.droplane sepins fantastic there is a of gold, he anga they seemed like led battle cruiser approaching | perfectly good reason for this," M. crowns of gold, which refers to the Excitement at that time was at Haradur Muller says in effect in a sunshine falling on a turning pro fever pitch owing to the activities remarkable article in a recent issec peller.. of the "Emden."/
The "Emden" had only three funnels, but the appearance of this strange ship was sufficient to
of the Paris Flustration,
Verse 8: "And they had hajp "Suppose a man of the Middle as the hair of women."-The smoke Ages tried to describe a vision he from the exhaust. "And their. the officer, and he immediately haul of a rallway train. He would teeth were as the teeth of lions."-- called the Superintendent insay that it was an enormong enter-¡ The two struts of the landing car- charge of the station. With the pillar that moved at tremendous riage. Verse 915 “And they hnd aid of his glasses the Superintensed and had a horny head, with brenstplates, as it were breastplates dent speedily established the feet big, timing eyes spitting out of icon."-The light armour-plate that the visitor was indeed the flames, stenti, and smoke, and a red used to protect the motors. "And "Emilen." camouflaged with a eye in its tail. He would also say the sound of their wings was as, the dummy funnel of painted canvas. that it made a thunderous noise, sound of chariots of many horses A warning was sent from the and shrieked terrifically as it. foreruming to battle."-The noise of etation, and picked up by along, like a gigantic bird of prey The motors." mumber of war craft escorting a convey of Australian troops to the
M. Baradue-Muller says in cori- front: Among the escorting feel
M. Baradue-Muller begins his inclusion that if we modern people were the "Sydney" and "Hamp- | terpretstion with the first verse of
had never seen an aeroplane, and shire," the former being despatch- |-Chapter IX- ed to Cocos Island immediately.
did not know how it was made, we
Strategy.
darting toward its victim."
And the fifth angel sounded, and
I saw a stay fall from henven into? į probably would not be able to give
lie earth; and to him was given the any more precise description,than
St. John himself. key of the boltinnless pit,
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Meanwhile, the "Emden" drow sharewards and an armed party landed. Resistance in the face of
He interprets the star as man's szeh____powerful opposition WAS hopeless, and those in the cable intellectunt development, the bot- house adopted strategy in its stead, tomless pit is the coal, and the The Germans were thoroughly de-steam engine is the key. And so cent over the task that lay before opens the mechanical era. them, namely the destruction of the cable hause, and in as many words said to the occupants. “We are sory, but this is WAR and we must destroy your apparatus,"
Every particle of the valunble apparatus in the cable house was without further ado stashed,
"Kindly point out your main
cable," was the next command given.
Without the flicker of an eyelash to betray himself, thé Superinten- dent, took them le a spot where a thick cable entered the beach.
- Verse 2: And he opened the; bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the plt, as the smokeĮ, of a great furnace;, and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.. This is an allusion to the intense) industralization of modern life and. the mechanical era.
. Verse 3: And there came out of the smoke locust upan the earth, and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power, Here St. John cutches his first Laboriously the Germans hacked | glimpse of the aeroplane, which is | , through if Probably they do not the supreme triumph of oor manu- | know to this day that they hadfacturing processes, but under the only cut through an uaimportant influence of human passions mans: earth wire, while the main cable | kind has turned it from humanitar lay hidden and intact.
That was strategy amber ane, Number two was even better,
The Commander in charge of the Germans turned his eye to a towering wireless must.
"That will have to come down" The exclaimed, and his men set about the work of demolishing it. A perfectly natural request from one of the Englishmen saved the situation.
"say," he pleaded. “You are not leaving us much work to do, but that cast will fall across our tennis court and I take it that you will have no objdetion to ás filling in our leisure with a game of tennis?"
ion purposes lo evil ones. The ef- feet of a scorpion's bite is very similar to the effect of gas, and so this is a reference to gas warfare.
Verse 4: And. it was commanded them that they should not hurt the Krank of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but? only those men which have not the seal of God in their fore- bends.
The respect that these new locusts have for vegetation shows: that they are not the ordinary locusts which eat up the fields.
Verse 5; And to them I was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months, and their lorment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he atriketh a man.
This torment refers to poison gas,
The German officer sportingly agreed to alter the felling of the prast so that it came down with 'a resounding crash wall clear of the which often causes a slow and hor-. tennis court-with a result which | ribo death. will become apparent later.
At that moment the smoke of a vessel appeared over the horizon. The "Emden" was expecting a conling vessel and awaited the approaching smoke stack with equanimity.
Shock of his Life, When it was hull down on the horizon, Von Muller, the “Emden" Commander, received the shock of his life, for the hull was that of "Sydney" coming as fast as her engines would drive lier. How the
"Emden" vessels engaged, and went to her doom is common knowledge."
To return to the narative on' ahore,
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The German party, realising the futility of returning 10 the "Emden." commandered the yacht "Aisher" belonging to Ross, who was at that time known for and wide as "King of the Coroa Leland" and put out to sen, where they came up with a German tramp put- ting into Italian territory for in- fernment.
When neuring Mossawa on the western shores of the Red Sea, they provisioned two of the ship's life-boats and cast off in them,
After many hardships · and en- counters with Bedouins they man- aged to rench German territory..
The hardy fellows on Cocoa Land blandly turned their atten- tion to the tennis court, not for a nonchalant game, but to dig up a
set complete duplicate
of apparatus, which would have been hopelessly smushed had the heavy must fallon across the court.
A new earth cable was speedily fitted and within twenty-four houra Cocos Island was again talking to the world.
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