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SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1929.

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My dear nephews and nieces:--- I want you all to join me in calling three cheers for the "Chins Mall", and, while we are about it, we might as well throw in one for the ko popular "Hong Kong Tigers,"

Through the courtesy of, this popular evening paper. we are to have a quiet corner ail to ourselves, And in this cosy nook we meet every Saturday to exchange views.

REVERENCE

The Twelfth Law of the Scout

AN IMPORTANT ONE

I have no doubt that you ali know your Scout Laws by heart, and it will be jolly interesting if you were to write a short essay on each one of the twelve laws. promise you that I will publish them for you.

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Reverence, as you all know, is the twelfth and last law of the Scout, and I think it is the most important of any of the twelve.

Reverence our dictionary tells us-means veneration, honour, respect and an act of obeisance. It is therefore clear that without re- verence, no law, no rule or regula- tion, can be of any worth. To lack reverenec is to lack respect. With- out respect there is no obedience.

Therefore, be you a Scout or not, I strongly urge all boys to cultivate the spirit of reverence. It is the hallmark of the strong man. The noblest and most sacred of our institutiona-the Church, the Courts, the flag-have the ré- verence and respect of every true citizen.

We must also revere and

respect our parents, our superiors "and our elders.

No boy should get the wrong idea that reverence is a sign of weak- ness. It is, in fact, strong evidence of strength, of manly courtesy, of esteem and veneration.

When you see a boy taking off his hat on entering a church, or when in the presence of ladies, you dare not call him weak. That boy has the underlying nobility just as there is a mark of patriotism in the act of uncovering when the flag goes by.

CAMP FIRE

THE CAMP

[By Uncle Charles,J

I want you all to look upon this Camp Fire" as distinctly your

own.

Take a personal interest in its future. Kindle it and do not allow it to burn out..

I want you all to write and tell me how you like this "Camp Fire." If you have any suggestions to I am effer, do so by all means. always glad to welcome such sug- gestions.

AT THE JAMBOREE

Scouts of All The World

this

Forty-two nations are being re- presented at the World Jamboree at Arrowe Park, Birkenhead, August. 1 give here a description of some of the Scouts of far off

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HANDS ACROSS THE SEA

Have you a chum in an- other country? How would you like to correspond with a Brother Scout or a Sister Guide abroad?

I want to help you to know friends who are thousands of miles away or may be within

a stone's throw of your own town.

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If any Scouts or Guides would like to have a pen friend, please communicate * with me--Uncle Charles, c/o * "The China Mail"-and I shall be glad to help you.

countries, so that you will be able Lo recognise them.

Austria

Austria is represented at Arrowe Park by a contingent of two hun ured.

The "Pfadfinder Osterreichs" is a federation of two Associations- the "Oesterreichischer Pfadfinder- bux" and the "Oesterreichischer Ffadfinderkorps St. Georg."

The Austrian Scouts wear khaki shirts and blue shorts. The badge of the "O.P." is a cloth emblem in three stripes, two red and one A great writer said. "Little white-the National Austrian

THE CHINA MAIL,

You all can help me immensely, ́und I am sure you will. Write and tell me the doings of your patral, or group. A short story from you scouting is also welcome, Don't be shy, and get busy now.

Be of good cheer. Will meet you all again next Saturday.

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UNCLE CHARLES.

CAMPING HINTS

Some Points To Remember

BARKER'S ISLAND

The Girl Guides' Grotto

"NEAPOLITAN NIGHTS"

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ON 350 METRES

It is always hard for a man to The following programme will

talk to girls, and I

confess

be broadcast to-day from the Gov- ernment Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. on 350 metres:

of

1 do not know much about your movements, but I feel sure it cannot be less worthy than

1.48 p.m. Weather Report. the brotherhood of Scouts. Per-

5.80-6.30 p.m.-Programme haps your Guide mistress can help Chinese Music (Sinophone Records me with this column in future. supplied through the courtesy · of

Now when I come to think of Messrs. Sinophone Co., Ltd.). it, I remember a story which a 7.48 pm. Evening Weather Re- young man once told me of a Girlport.

Guide,

8 p.m.-Evening Programme He was a patrol leader in (Columbia Records

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through the courtesy of Messrs. hadge collecting was his bobby, Anderson Music Co., Ltd.). he wore the "All-round Cord" and "The Vagabond King". (Frizal), all the other gadgets which made Selection...Percival Mackey's him an outstanding figure.

Band. Dance Music.

The Peacock Patrol and a com- pany of Guides were engaged in a sham fight one moon-lit night. The badge-collecting patrol lead- er was leading his men to the at- tack.

Captured

How it happoned, I am not able] Now that Barker's Island has to say, but somehow or other bea acquired for your use, your the leader of the Guides capture. thoughts naturally turn to camped the "all-round corder" and took ing. Summer time is camping time, him prisoner. She marched him and who would not love to live out-back to camp, and in the dim flare of a candle, she noticed he had a hole in one of his stockings.

dours?

Joy of Camping

If you have been to camp you will agree that there is no boliday to compare with it. If you have .never been to camp, then you

haven't had a real holiday. joy in camping is living in the air, evoking your cwn food making gadgets.

The

open and

The Way to Enjoy The way to enjoy camp is to keep busy, carry out the jobs that have to be done in a cheerful manner and strive to make those around you happy. You will not forget that camp provides you with splendid opportunities for Special Good Turns to the farmers whose land you may pitch your tent.

on

Now to all good girls a hole in the stockings is a sin, so the good guide forgot that she was the captor and the boy before him her captive, brought out wool and 30 much as needle, and without "may I began to darn the hole.

A decade went by, and to the Scout and Guide this incident was forgotten. War broke out. The 20 at once answered the call, and the girl joined the V.A.D.

Meet Again

man was

One day a wounded brought in to the hospital where the erstwhile guide was now a full- bloom nurse. She had charge of the badly wounded lad in Khaki, and whilst busily engaged with bandages and lint, she noticed the poor Tommy's socks were full of holes.

Choosing Your Site Much of the success of a camp depends on how it is laid out, Choose your camp-site as you

After the wounds had been dreas- would a place on which you will build your

went away for her house. The ideal the nurse site is

She returned and one that is fairly mending basket. high up. because it willaitting patiently by the bed side of be dry and well-drained.

the wounded soldier, she began to A icw lying place of ground will col-mend the much worn out socks. lect much water and that will be uncomfortable.

"Why this is also the second time

Funny, mused the wounded man, this is the second time in my life! Protection From Wind-

hat I have had my socks mended Protection from wind is another by a woman who is not my mother. important matter to consider. Ther sister." best position is on a gentle slope which is open to the south and pro-n my life that I had to mend a tected on the other sides by woods. man's socks who is not my brother, The first time I mended the stock- ing of a conceited patrol leader whose only bobby in life was badge collecting," she said.

re-

Winning & Recruit: A scouty sket el presented by the 16th Hong Kong Cútholic Cathedral Boy Scouts

cently at the St. Patrick's Club. Above are seen the performers and artistes who took part in 8. grand

concert.

courtesies are the real sign of the man. The gentleman. is he who knows how to be gracious and re- verent." You may argue that the days of chivalry have passed, and gone. It may be, but I maintain that true knighthood will remain as long as there is reverence and respect in the world.

You have the honour to belong to the Brotherhood of Scouts, there- fore, you must always bear in mind. that a Scout is reverent toward God and tolerant toward all others in matters of custom and religion. In your Brotherhood you have boys of many religions, boys of many races, colours and creeds. Yet you ali should manifesta Common spirit of reverence, and tolerance. You are all bound together by the same bound of brotherhood-by being trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, cleap and

Reverent.

SEA SCOUTS UNDER CANVAS

The Sea Scouts are under canvas at Taipo, and I am sure they are thoroughly enjoying themselves.

colours-surmounted with an ar- rowhead. The badge of the "O.P. St. Georg" consists of a Maltese Cross with an arrowhead set in the centre.

The Austrian Scouts are ardent campers, and make good use of their glorious country. Like their Czech brother Scouts, they use wooden walls on their tents.

Belgium

The badge of the B.-P. Belgian Scouts is an arrowhead and scroll. The Boy Scouts de Belgique have a distinctive metal badge which consists of the arrowhead super- imposed with the Belgian lion in black. Underneath is a soroll with the words "Toujours Pret.”

Most sunshine comes from the South, whilst the winds are mainly from North and East, and gales and rain from the West.

Water and Fuel

to camp, but you do want to take

"I как that conceited patrol, eader," shamefully answered the

handel tad.

She looked into his eyes and there as mutual recognition.

She is now still darning his socks nd occasionally sewing a button or wo to his shirts.

The Cubs' Corner

8.45 p.m. How Do You Do?" (A Miniature Revue in 2 Acts), With Emmy Joyce, Billy Leonard, Mark Daly, John-Thorne & Company.

Dance Music,

9.30 p.m. The Gondoliery", Vocal Gems,

Columbia Light Opera Company.

"Allah's Holiday", Neapolitan Nights",

Victor Salon Orchestra. 10.15 p.m. Ballet Egyptien". (Luigini),

Orchestra Symphonique de Paris. 10.30 p.m.-Close Down.

EASTERN PORTS

WHAT A WEEK'S HEALTH BULLETIN SHOWS

The Health Bulletin of Eastern ports for the week ended August 10 states:

Plague

Port Said: 1 case. Bassein: 3 deatis. Rangoon: 2 deaths.

Prom Pent: 5 cases, 5 deaths. Saigon: 1 case, 1 death. Bangkok: cases 3 deaths.

Cholera Baasein: 3 cases.' Calcutta: 28 deaths.

1 death. Karachi, 1 Negapatam: 4 deaths. Bangkok: 2 cases. Shanghai: 24 deaths. Canton: 2 cases. Dairen: 1 case. Swatow: 2 deaths,

Small-pox

Berbera: 1 case. Aden: 17 casts, 6 deaths. Bombay: 13 cases, 9 deaths. Calcutta: 2 cases, 2 deaths. Karachi: 1 case, 1 death. Madras: 16 cases, & deaths. Moulmein: 8 cases, 3 deaths. Pondicherry: 3 cases, 1 death. Batavia: 2 rages, 2 deaths. Maeusser: 1 case, I death. Belawan Delf: 1 case. Sourabaya: 1 case. Pnom Penh: 2 cases, 1 death. Dairen: 1 case.. Swatow: 2 deaths.

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Aristocratic Beauty Ends Life

Honoria Gordon, beautiful British woman, adored and rich, shocked all Mayfair one night when she sud- Jenly excused herself from a glit- ering dinner party: pleading fati ****gue, and walked into the sachet- No, I have not forgotten you, my scented boudoir of her hostess and Jarlingest little cuba. In fact I shot herself twice with a little

man,

vory-handled pistol

hot, green exuberance of the Kenya jungle, in South Africa, was left widower by her strange suicide. Honoris was a debutante in 1914.

Secretary.

ove you more, and you are just as nipurtant to me as your bigger Thus onded a life full of romance, rother, the Scout, or your bigger af trágedy, of adventure, of mar- sister, the Useful Guide.

riage and divorce. Honoria's full Although you are small, you are name was Honoria Malcolm John- pigger than the big fellows who stone Lumsden Gordon. Of, her have not the pluck to join up. I three husbands one-the romantic am proud of you, so stick your arst love of her girlhood--was kill- hest out, my little fellows, and let ad in action on the Alsne. From the world know that you will do her second she was divorced and Then you will want to make sureig things when you grow to be a ser third, whom she met amid the that there is an abundant supply-

I am sure you all would like to of water, and that fuel is obtain- able within an easy distance of thearn something new, and I am al- site. It is nice to have a few trees ways pleased to tell you a thing or on the site as they afford shelter wo each week. Have you heard of She fell madly in love with Reggie Belgium has a contingent of five from the heat during the day. But Butterfly's Umbrella? No, all Fitzroy Johnstone. In July, just. hundred Scouts at the World Jam- don't pitch your tent under trees, right here it goes:-

before the outbreak of the war, they boxee.

On bright sunny days we see were married. Her husband joined unless you want to be hit by light- There are two Scout Associationsning and visitors in the form of pretty little butterflies flying garly the colours almost at once and in in Belgium, the Baden-Powell Bel- midges and insects,

about. Some of them look like bits less than two months Honorla was gian Boy Scouts and the Boy Scouts

Your Equipment

of gold on wings. Others make us a widow. He had been killed in de Belgique.

You do not want to be loaded fancy that some of the gay blos-action. like a Christmas tree when you go pair of wings. There are so many to bear this shock courageously, soms in the gardens have found a To the outside world she seemed necessary items of clothing and butterflies which have beautiful but those who knew her best said equipment All you need is here: colours like flowers, you know that something fundamental in the a ground sheet, two blankets, over-

But have you noticed that buttergirl had been altered by the death coat or waterproof, a change of ies do not fly about when it rains. of her first love. The Ruthven clothing, spare vest, spare stock You have perhaps wondered where pride would not permit her to ro ings, spare shoes, handkerchiefs, they go on rainy days? veal the depths of her sorrow. You see, a butterfly cannot fly However, her laugh was' more arti- bathing custome, soap and towel,

trife more high- toothbrush and paste, hairbrush well in the rain. It has sense just fetal and # and comb, enamel plate and mug, will carry an umbrella or wear a In 1916, on the rebound from the

as well as you. In rainy days you pitched, y knife, fork and spoon and your raincoat, but a butterfly has loss of her young husband, she neither umbrella nor raincoat, so it married James Lumsden. She be seeks a place of shelter until the ame then very much the lady of

fashion: Invitations to her lavish the South African junglest

One night at a, splendid dinner Where is the butterfly's shelter, entertainments were much coveted, And into that whirl, also to for-party given by a Mra. Florence The Egyptian Scouts wear a you may ask. It is under a leaf, while she appeared at Ascot razes get, came Captain Charles Gordon, Martin, one of Honoria's best khaki uniform and the distinctive and a very good shelter too. Faris-gowned and lovely. But this dashing, suave, rich – who before friends, the unhappy girl suddenly

the war had been an honorary at rose from the table and said: Next week I will tell you some round of gayety could not last. red "tarbush." Their Scout Badge consists of three green lotus thing about the "Frufta we Eat."

There was no seneational divorce, tache at the British Embassy in no abrupt break-up of her marital Paris. He had just been divorced Finland War Redo The Badge of the ship. Honoria and her husband from Lady Gordon and his path There is a federation of three Suomen Partiollitto is the arrow simply drifted farther and farther crossed that of Honoria's. They Scout Associations in Finland head superimposed with a lion apart, and when the divorce finally found much in common and were

* Greece under the name of Suomen Partio-

came no one was very much sur married in Kenya. pojat They have sent a combined The Greek Boy Scouts Associa-prised

Captain Cordon made, an almost contingent of one hundred and tion hope to send ʼn contingent of Thon, in the final effort to pall perfect bushand, at least as far as forty to the Jamboree, one hundred to the World Jam herself together, to shake off the the outside world could judge. He The badge of the Fiulunds bores vir haunting memory of the past, was very much in love with his Svenska Scoutforbund Is the arrow The Greek Scout, badge is the ar Honoria left Mayfair and the new bride and for several years head superimposed with a drawn rowhead surmounted with an eagla protective, restraining influence of they were probably the most pop bow and arrow and the metto and three stars.»

the Ruthven name and sailed for lar couple in Kenya.

Brazil

Fifty Scouts from Brazil. The badge of the Union dos Escoteiros do Brasil is an arowhead super imposed with a small shield and ⠀⠀ Scout axe. the initials of the Association. U.E.B.

Bulgaria

They went to camp on Monday la and will break camp on August

The Boy Scouts de Bulgarie bave 23, returning to Hong Kong en

sent twenty Scouts. Their Scout August 24 by sea, in the same way badge is the arrowhead superim as they made the trip out.

posed with the Bulgarian lior, Although we have had some heavy | They wear khaki shirts and blue showers during the week, and the shorts prospects are that we will get more,

Estonta

(To be Continued.]

World Jamboree by a contingent of skies are clear again. fifteen Scouts.

A flowers on a yellow background,

I do not think the enjoyment and The Boy Scouts of Estonia have delight of camping out will be in a contligent of seventeen at the any way diminished. It is uncom World Jamboree, fortable, no doubt, to sleep on sodden ground and have water dripping through our tents, but as they are Sea Scouts, they expect to get wet

I hope some Sea Scouts will write and tell me how they are enjoying

They wear a khaki uniform and their Scout badge Is the arrowheal superimposed with a shield and three lions. O

Egypt

Egypt is represented at the (Continued at foot of Column 3 & 4)

Lady Idina, above, former wife of Captain Gordon, estranged fruin him just before he married Honoria Lumsden, beautiful society favourite of London, who shocked her set by committing suicide at what was supposed to have been the happiest time of her life. Below; the lovely Honoria when she was Miss Malcolm, just before her bril liant marriage to Reggie Johnstone, who was killed in the war. Right, General Lord Ruthven, Honoria's conservative and powerful uncle, one of Britain's most influential peers.

"I feel so tired. If you will ex cuse me for a moment I must go and telephone..

With that she withdrew into a bedroom near by and all seven of the guests heard the telephone give the slight tinkle that marks the lifting of the receiver. Then they heard a shot

Why did she do it? No one nows but Hangria herself. At any rate, she has gone to join. Reggis, sleep- ing in France

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