IN MANY LANGUAGES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 48, 2 July 1947, Page 2

IN MANY LANGUAGES

NEWSPAPER FOR BOY SCOUTS Boy Scouts of over 40 different countries will be the readers of a newspaper to be published at the World Jamboree in France, which 250 New Zealand Scouts are attending. Called “Jamboree-France,” it will consist of eight pages of news, photographs and cartoons, and will appear daily for 15 days. French and English will be used principally, but there will be many articles in other languages. It would be readily imagined, it was stated, that the job of preparing such a newspaper would be an. extremely complex one.

Moisson, which is situated forty miles from* Paris, in a bend of the Seine, is the site of the jamboree, which will be held from August 9 to August 22. This will be the first World Jamboree for ten years, and it is likely to prove the largest ever held. The French have named it “Le Jamboree de la Paix” (peace Jamboree).

Led by their own pipe band, 700 kilted Scottish Boy Scouts will attend the jamboree. At previous jalnborees, kilts have always created a great stir among from other countries. Always regarded with envious eyes by souvenirhunting Scouts from abroad, the Scots, in these days of clothes rationing, it is stated, will have to guard their precious kilts very closely.

The gathering of Scouts from all parts of the world, states a communication from the Boy Scouts Association, provides a very colourful spectacle. The Scout uniform is basically the same everywhere, but many countries have small differences in keeping with national customs, such as the turbans worn by the Indians, the Syrians’ spiked helmet and the “tarbush” of the Egyptians.

Six thousand Boy Scouts from all parts of the British Isles have been chosen to represent Great Britain at the jamboree. Many times this number were eager to attend, and careful selection had to be made to fill the allocated places. '