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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1929.

Girl Guides' Grotto

The staffing of the camp hospital at the recent world jamboree held by the boy scouts at Arrowe Park, England, was perhaps the biggest job the Guides have undertaken The hundred Cheshire Gulders, who were in charge, arranged for four warda, and then wondered just what would happen. Actually there were would-be patients clamoring for admission before a single bandage was unpacked or a bed set up. Altogether 321 cases were ad- mitted, while the outpatienta' de- partment dealt with 2,329 cases,

The hospital was equipped with an operating theatre and a dental clinic, and only 52 boys had to be sent to other hospitals. The in- patients suffered mostly from sore throats, chest troubles, fractured arms and legs, injured heads, &c. Over 250 patients attended the dental clinic.

Dates to Remember

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WHAT HAPPENED IN NOVEM- DER YEARS AGO

November 1. On this day in 1858 the rule of the East India Company was abolished and India was taken over as A dependency of Great Britain.

2. Marie Antoinette was born in 1755. The daughter of the Emperor Francis of Austria, she was marri- ed as a girl of fifteen to Loula the Sixteenth of France, and, like him, porished on the scaffold.

3. General Grant the victorious anti-slavery leader in the American Civil War, was elected President in 1868.

4. Felix Mendelssohn died at his home at Leipzig in 1847, after on- riching the world with some of Its noblest music.

5. The great plot of Guido Fawkes and his confederates to blow up the Houses of Parliament was discovered in 1605.

G. Abraham Lincoln, America's noblest son, and one of the world's greatest men, was elected President of the United States of America in 1860, when he was 51.

7. Colombus returned to Spain

in 1604, from his last expedition to.

the New World which he had dis- covered.

8. John Milton, poor and blind, died 1574 at his London home in Bunhill Fields, aged 68.

9. Sixty-three days after leaving England, in 1620, the Mayflower's pilgrims sighted land at Cape Cod, Newfoundland.

10. David Livingstone, who had quitted elvilisation fre years earlier, was found in the heart of Africa by Stanley in 1871.

11. At eleven o'clock on the) morning of this day in 1918 the greatest war in the world's history came to an end.

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The Cubs' Corner

An amusing story about a Cub in Shanghai was told me by a ¡friend, which I cannot resist the temptation to pass on. It is a per- fectly true Incident and I could tell} you the name of the Cub concerned If I were not afraid that he might Inever forgive me.

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The Gub, who, be it whispered, was very much under the official Cub age, had finished his bath, during the course of which he had apparently been playing boats, and on getting out of the bath put the boat on a shelf. A little later father decided he would have a bath and while in the midst of his ablutions he heard a knock at the door. On inquiry he discovered it i was his smell son, the Cub, “What do

you want?" be asked. "Nothing," came the reply, "but I only wanted to tell you, father, that, if you want to, you can play with my boat.”

What is Scouting?

VIEWS OF AN OLD SCOUT

"What is the essential quality for a scout?" asked Captain Wienholt; D.3.0., M.C., in the course of a lec- ture delivered at the Constitutional Club in Brisbane recently. Answer. ing his own question, he said: "Anything but a nagging mata. If there is one thing I bar in a scout camp, it is a man who wants to talk." Several other answers had been submitted-health common sense, observation-but quietness was, in the lecturer's opinion, the supreme nacessity, though, he ad- mitted the excellence of each of the others.

Early Scouting Captain Wienholt proceeded to trace stories of, scouting and of scoutcraft from the dawn of his- tory. The Bible itself offered many, the most beautiful of all being found in Numbers--the story of the 12 scouts sent by Moses to spy ont the Promised Land. Under their patrol leader "Osken" (Joshua), the son of Nun," they formed an intel- lgence patrol to search for the Land of Canaan, with deñafte instructions as to what they should report on Special questions re- garding wood and fruit showed the

for forethought of Moses

the peoples under his command. They returned reporting "a land flowing with milk and honey," and bringing as a sample a bunch of grapes so large that it was carried slung on a pole between two men. A parallel] GOOD MEDICINE TO BANISH story was included in the legends)

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of the West African Mambokushu į tribe, telling how their chiaf, fear- A guide smiles and ainga under ing aggression, sent a party to search out fertlic vacant land, and

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The "Old Scout's " Column.

Learning To Smile

I was particularly their children, they will not hest- Well Done! pleased with the tate to contribute towards the fund fall difficulties. What a nice, happy how they returned with three

Boys and satisfactory report which is so badly needed-not by Girls of your progress in the Association-but by their own

various branches of children.

12. Canute, a savage when fight- ing for the throne, but afterwards scouting and gulding, as presented a great King of England, died in at the annual meeting of your Aa- 1035, aged 41.

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Have you noticed the number of questions asked in the House of Commons about the British Fighting Forces in this part of the world? The cables this week have in. dicated clearly that people in the Old Country eagerly seek first-hand information as to what is going on out here..

Remember, Hong Kong is the headquarters of all three branches, the Royal Navy, the Army and the Royal Air Force. Admittedly, M.P.'a questions have been directed to stations outside Hong Kong as well, but those in charge are

rhythm that law has. It just seems things: a handful of mabaola (a to fit in with any work

in this Colony. we are nutritious fruit), a skin bag of good doing but we must learn to say it soil, and a large dried fish, show- in that sing-song, happy fashion be-Thus heartoned, the people left Ing that there was a big river. Scouting World Guiding

we can appreciate its full their homes and changed to their. Friendship and been tuken up meaning and know how it can help present district. Thus a scout was Understanding not only in the UB. Often we have to be taught a largely responsible for the morale British Empire,little. Icason-in fact, life's just one In military work, particularly, of those to whom he was reporting.

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13. Edward the Third, to cele-Rev. G. T. Waldegrave. I am sorry brate his Aftieth birthday in 1862, that he will be leaving you BOUD, declared that English should be the but it is only for a short space of jegal language of England, and not time. He will no doubt return to but practically in every country in big lesson-and if only we can learn though giving accurate information French, which had been used since you all with fresh Ideas and ex- the civilised world. This cannot the Norman conquest.

perience gathered in the Old Coun- fail to bring about a spirit of world to smile and sing through it all, to the leaders, he must always ap

friendship, and who knows but that why-life's not such a bad old thing, pear cheerful among the actual in the future Scouts and Guides after all. But I must tell you how troops. Your Association may help to keep the peace of the Your

needs $60,000 in order world. As the Movement grows in Training to provide a training all countries the high ideals foster

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I am ing friendship and mutual under- camp for you. aure the money will be standing must trend towards peace 16. Perkin Warbeck, who pre- generously donated by your parents and brotherly understanding. tended to be one of the Princes friends. It is for a good cause and murdered in the Tower of London, anyone who has the interest of the was beheaded there in 1499.

young people at heart cannet and

14. James Bruce discovered in 1770 the source of the Blue Nile.

15. Queen Victoria's first Par- llament met in 1837 on the anniver- sary of the meeting of the first of the regular Parliaments, which was held at Oxford in 1213.

I learnt to smile and sing. It was Efficiency and Deficiency

The lecturer told many stories of a particularly bright, sunny after-scouting efficiency and deficiency- noon not so long ago, and Gladys the Second Punic war, with the de- and I had decided to go for a hike feat of Carthage after her early and collect all kinds of leaves. Our victories, because of the failure of patrol is doing "Nature" for the were, by their own error, captured four of Hasdrubal's açouts, who All parents, whether rally, and we do so want to do really by Rome; the defeat of the Italians To-night's they have boys or well. We thought it would be a at Adowa owing to poor scoutcraft; 17. The Suez Cana! was opened should not tighten their pursue

Concert girls belonging to the in 1869, and for the first time ships strings. They must bear in mind

Movement or not, good idea to take our tea and make the frequent references to scouts in He sailing between East and West no that Scouting and Guiding are a should make it a point of seeing a jolly afternoon of it. But our the Commentaries of Caesar. longer had to all round Africa. mighty contribution towards the de- the Scout's Coming-of-Age concert carefully thoughtout little plan re-spoke with enthusiasm of the scout- The canal, 87 miles long, connects velopment of the new generation.

ing work done by the well-known to-night at the Theatre Royal. It ceived a severe setback during the hunter, the late F. C. Selous, whe the Mediterranean and the Red Sea.

will be a treat that very few have morning. Mother bald she was guided Rhodes pioneer column up They will also have the good fortune to

1891, through What the to remember that the seeing the cheerful fellows at play, sorry, but I must stay at home and Mashonaland in

I country bristling with Matabele Movement Movement

I am sure no parents, how sceptical¦ mind the twins and get the tea. ose Means which entertains no they may be, can deny their sons felt so savage I could almost have warriors spoiling for fight. Many practical hints. for efficient bush class distinction. It is and daughters the great honour of 19. Lord Tennyson, the greatest the Movement that trains up young becoming a member of the splendid hurt the twins-though I knew, in and scout work were given by the of modern English poets, was made girls and boys, to be useful and Scout and Guide Movements. The my heart of hearts, that they were lecturer, illustrated by anecdotes of It is a Movement boys and girls of this world-wide not to blame, poor little things-and life in Australla, South Africa, the we loyal citizens. vellous boy poet, who died miser which has the support of every man Movement are asking for your help

and woman of good-will in this to-day. ably in a garret in London, was world. Fathers and mothers should ing quite well that to-morrow you born at Bristol in.1752.··

21. Napoleon, by the Berlin de realise what the Movement means will have to look up to them for a cros of 1806, 'declared the whole to their offspring, and if they love greater help?, British Isles under blockade, for

18. The funeral of the Duke of: Wellington took place at St. Paul's -Cathedral in 1852. The carriage used in the procession is still pre- served in the crypt. '/

Poet Laureate in 1850.

20. Thomas Chatterton, the mar

bidding all foreign nations to trade in 1708, and Henry Winstanley, its with the English, hoping to starve architect, perished in the ruins the country into helplessness. He was born in 1644

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Cunal, and that was the Can you deny them, know

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mothers do need outings sometimes. scene of his many hunting expedi I sat on the veranda, thinking' alltions, and other parts of the world. these things, and getting wilder and The ever-present necessity for wilder every minute, because the quiet, for proper choice of tamp people, next door would insist on site, and for camping tidlly, whe playing the same. record over and ther for pleasure or on active ser over again. It seemed, after a vice, were all emphasised. "Avoid while, like a lot of cats meowing roads, even though cross-country and, sure enough, there they were going may be harder," was one of dozens of them grey ones, black his golden rules, both because of ones, tabby ones, white ones all the danger in war tims and because sitting on top of a high brick wall, of the beauties that are missed in singing lustily meow meow now peace scouting Captain Wienholt Suddenly, they stopped, and began to told many storfes of the tracking play instead. One fine big tabby prowess of natives, and its value 1615. He collected and wrote the 28 Mandalay was captured by races, and they worked together in pushing all the little kittens off the were given, too on food and the was thoroughly enjoying himself on hunting expeditions and in bush work generally, Valuable hints priceless annals of early travels of the British in 1885. Burma became real brotherhood. One met there wall and the funny part of it was British adventurer i jes a British possession, well governed

2424 great service was held in for the first time. In modern daya in Scout uniform European lads they didn't seem to mind at all. nocesalty sometimes for doing with out it and his advice was to try to 29. Sir Philip Sidney was born who mingled with the Filan, In- They acrambled back again, only

The Boy Scout movement is grow AT 223 The Grand Remonstrance 27 Henry Fawcett, the first ing in popularity in Fijl every your. denouncing Charles the First was blind man to sit in Parliament, ex- passed in 1641 by Parliament. Ittered the House of Commons in Its value is being appreciated by led to the great Civil War, and the 1865 He introduced the parcel all races, and at the annual rally, downfall of the king, at post, postal orders, and sixpenny held at Nukulau this year, there

28. Richard Hakluyt died In telegrama.SENSO

wers representatives of various

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In 1644 Scholar, poet, soldier, he dian, Rothman, and Samona Scouts be the willing victims of mas

The one of the most noble examples in some instances they spoke their tabby's playfulness onoëtmore.

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