Shanghai had an opportunity of seeing something entirely new on Saturday afternoon in the compound of the Public School for Boys, North Szechuen Road. Five keen and eager troops of foreign boy scouts going through interesting and instructive evolutions in order to win the coveted Rotary Shield.
A nasty drizzling rain was falling the whole afternoon but nobody seemed to mind that very much. The whole scene was very spectiacular—there were the Scouts in their neat and business-like uniforms, the judges, most of them in service dress with a. great array of medal ribbons, the brave and weather-proof spectators, and a tastefully decorated parade ground, This great muster for a general "Jamboree" is the first of its kind ever held in Shanghai, but it is to be hoped it is not the last. Some very clever work was done in bridge building, tentpitching, signalling, ete.
The final marks were
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