Scouts and Guides in Flag-Raising Ceremony, at Consulate FEMIPRE Day, which fell on a Sunday, was celebrated by Shanghai on May*23 in the customary manner.
Boy Scouts and their sister and junior organizations hoisted the Union Jack at H, M, Consulate-General at 8 a.m, while at noon the British members of the Shanghai Club were at home to their brother members of other nations.
An addition to the usual programme was provided by the holding of a flag day on behalf of the Limbless Soldiers and Sailors of the Empire.
At 8 asin. the flag was hoi sted at the Consulate-General to the strains of the General Salute played by three buglers of the 2nd Royal Scots Fusiliers. Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, Wolf Cubs and Brownies, under Commissioner F. C, Millington and District Scoutmaster N. S, Jacobs, were on parade on the footpaths around the Consulate flagstaff, over 250 being present, Amongst whom were Scouts of other nationalities who had come to join with their British comrades in the celebration.
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