Three Thousand Lay Down Three Highways Labour service was rendered by more than 3,000 Chinese Boy Scouts, all above the age of 16, in the Civic [Centre in Kiangwan, on Sunday, under the supervision of the Shanghai Chinese Boy Scouts Association's Board of Directors. Government officials present included Gen. Wu Te-chen, the Mayor, Mr. K. C. Pang, Edueational Commissioner, and Mr. Tang Hsing-pah, of the Shanghai District Kuomintang. The purpose was to demonstrate the reconstructive spirit.
Mr. Young spoke at length on the point of identifeation, and said the Bertillon system of identification was devised some years before a method fof classifying fingerprints was evolu ved, Armed with spades, the 3,000 scouts built three roads in the Civic Centre, known as Hsing Hsien, Hu Woo, and Chi Jen Yung, respectively. After the building, the scouts engaged in a route march over the roads.
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