REFUGEE SCOUT
FAMILY IN NEW ZEALAND LONDON, Sept. 1. Hans Glasher, aged 18, a Scout without nationality or badges, a refugee from the Sudeten areas of what was formerly Czechoslovakia, walked into the office of the Wolverhampton Star with three other Scouts of /Hungarian, .French and English nationality. “I had packed all my equipment in one cupboard and some of the Hitler Youth movement broke into the flat and took all my badges,” Glasher explained. “I was in Vienna during the crisis. Now all my family except my grandparents are refugees in New Zealand. There is no Scout movement in Czechoslovakia, and all the Scout leaders have been put in prison. One of them died in a concentration camp. I don’t suppose I shall ever see my old Scout friends again, but at Beaudesert I met a refugee school friend from Vienna. He has been able to keep one of his badges.” Hans was allowed to bring away only 30s, and after leaving England he wants to join his family in New Zealand.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20072, 19 October 1939, Page 10
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