[English] TOLD TO QUIT. Soldiers Dispossess Boy Scouts.

TOLD TO QUIT.

Soldiers Dispossess Boy Scouts.

SHANGHAI INDIGNANT.

Our Weekly Letter From the North.

Shanghai, Nov. 14.

We have certainly had a number of "incidents" during the past year or so, but I doubt whether any has caused such widespread indignation as the latest outrage.

Most of your readers will have heard that a couple of years ago, Mr. Harold Holgate, the Hon. Secretary of the Shanghai Boy Scouts Association succeeded in obtaining from the Shanghai Race Club the sum of $25,000 on loan, free of interest, with which was purchased a plot of land on the Hungjao Road for use as a permanent camp for our local Scouts. Nearly all the Shanghai nongs came forward with gifts of bricks, timber, beds and other equipment and a splendid hut was erected with little cost to the Association.

On Wednesday last, when six troops of Scouts were camping out at the Millington Camp - named after our local Commissioner who has done so much for the movement - a Chinese officer, accompanied by approximately 100 soldiers arrived on the scene and ordered the Scouts to quit.

The campers included three Chinese troops, mostly Cantonese, who were participating in a Jambouree with the foreign Scouts. Everything was going well until the Chinese troops arrived from the Hungjao aerodrome, informing Mr. Noel Jacobs, the District Scoutmaster that there was a war on and that he must move his boys at once.

In order to save any unnecessary trouble Mr. Jacobs and the Scouts moved to Mr. Hawkings' garden, a few yards away. The matter, however, is regarded as most serious for the land is actually owned by British and registered at the office of the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs as British property.

Source:

1. Page 6, "China Mail", Saturday, 20th November, 15th Year of the Republic of China

   • 16th Day, 10th Lunar Month, Bing-yin Year

   • Saturday, 20th November, 1926 Common Era