The Baden Powell Boy Scouts in Shanghai observed Armistice Day by a special parade yesterday morning in the grounds of the British Consulate-General, when Mr. Sidney Barton, om.c., H. M. Consul-General and Scout Commissioner for North China, inspected the Public School, Jewish, Thomas Hanbury, Cathedral and French Municipal School troops. The troops, commanded by Mr. Jones, Assistant District Scoutmaster, marched in column of fours into the Consulate grounds and formed into line. Following the inspection, a drumhead service was conducted by the Very Rev. Dean C. J. F. Symons, assisted by the Rev. A. N. Rowland and Rabbi Hirsch. After the lesson had been read, one minute's silence was kept and the flag dipped When the genera] salute was sounded and the flag hoisted to the peak, officers and scouts saluted in honour of those who fell in the Great War. At the conclusion of the ceremony the troops marched past the Commissioner for North China.
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