[English] The Boy Scouts' Help.

The Boy Scouts' Help.

Capt. Price mentions that in London alone 22,000 Boy Scouts were mobilised for the war, and employed on these duties: Handing out notices to inhabitants, and other duties connected with billeting, commandeering, warning, &c. Carrying out communications by means of despatch riders, signallers, wireless, &c. Guarding and patrolling bridges, culverts, telegraph lines, &c., against damage by individual spies. Collecting information as to supplies, transport, &c. available. Carrying out organised relief measures among inhabitants. Helping families of men employed in defence duties, or sick or wounded. Establishing first aid, dressing, or nursing stations, refuges, dispensaries, soup kitchens, &c., in their club rooms. Acting as guides, orderlies, &c. Forwarding despatches dropped by aircraft. Sea Scouts watching estuaries and ports, guiding vessels in unbuoyed channels, or showing lights to friendly vessels, &c., and assisting coast guards. Thousands of ex-scouts are in the Army and Navy, and arrangements are talked of for utilising the Scout troops if necessary later on as feeders of the Kitchener armies and Territorial battalions.

Source:

1. Page 3, "Hongkong Telegraph", Thursday, 11th March, 4th Year of the Republic of China

   • 26th Day, 1st Lunar Month, Yi-mao Year

   • Thursday, 11th March, 1915 Common Era