[English] BOY SCOUTS FOR WHAMPOA. SZECHUAN BOYS AS SOLDIERS.

BOY SCOUTS FOR WHAMPOA.

SZECHUAN BOYS AS SOLDIERS.

The Kueiyang (Szechuan) correspondent of the N. C. Daily News, writing on January 26, says:-

The Boy Scouts from Szechuan en route for Canton, where they are to enter the Whampoa Military Academy, are about to leave, I am told. Personally I have not seen much of them but I hear that more than one foreigner in this city have experienced rudeness at their hands, no doubt the fruit of the seed sown in their minds. I have always had the impression that the Boy Scout movement was intended by Sir Robert Baden Powell as a non-military method of keeping teenage boys occupied in useful ways. If this is so, it seems unfortunate that the Chinese title at least suggests something of a military nature; it is called Tung tze chun. One of them said to me that it has been difficult to find a more suitable name.

Source:

1. Page 1, "Hongkong Telegraph", Tuesday, 23rd February, 15th Year of the Republic of China

   • 11th Day, 1st Lunar Month, Bing-yin Year

   • Tuesday, 23rd February, 1926 Common Era