Another informant told. our presentative that there was now Actually no Boy Scouts Associati this having fallen out of existence for want of leadership, " But, he said, the movement bad been officially' recognized by the. Grea Shanghai Bureau of Education as legal organization for the Bureau had made an annual grant of $200 to meet expenses. Tf it was. an illegal organization, surely the Bureau would not be so foolish as to make this grant, he concluded.
Mr. F.C. Millington, who, course, is "well-known' in scout movenients, told our representative that the boy scout movement was hot inthe slightest. a. military unit. Indeed that was the last thing it was: it was just the re: Verse in every possible way. The Scouts never had military drill musketry practice, The boy scout movement was a peaceful move ment based on self-reliance art of the scouts themselves. He hoped the Kuomintang would ro-liza that the boy scout movement Ron-military and non-The London headquarters wer? greatly interested in knowing how the Kuomintang would treat the jovement and had sent Mr. Milington a letter, asking him to make aod inquiries, Division in the Camp, Unfortunately, the Chinese move. ment was divided into two factions, One of these wished place control of the movement in the hands of the Kuomintang unconditionally and to make it a semiofficial organization. The other wished to sce it conducted along th:
set by the founder of the movement, Sir Robert Baden-Powell. At the recent Jamboree, this division was represented but the Kuo-tang section not. Only those of the other troops anxious to follow the original Baden-Powell dens were present,
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