India's Boy Scouts Near 350,000 Mark; 5000 at Jamboree
NED DELHI. — Ina'ugurated in 1921 in India, the Boy Scout movement has now attained such dimen^xons that there has recently been held here a great allIndia] jabqree attended by nearly .5000 Scouts and .by . the" world ,Chief Scout, Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of thc movement. - There are- now some 350,000 Boy Scouts-in difcerent parts of India. Every province of british India has its Scout centre. Very many "' of the Indiap States, which' are ruled bp their semi-in-dependent sovereigns and coyer a third of the subcontinent, also have them. The Marquis.of Willingdon during his recent five years 7 Viceroyalty did . a great deal to -encourage the •movement and .for -the * Delhi - jamboree lads camc together from eVery part of India, from Burma and from Ceylon. " King George VI seht th'e recent gathering a special message of good wishes and this was read at the opening of the jamboree programme by .the. -Viveroy, the Marquis of Linlithgow, who specially went down to the gathering for- the purpose. •
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 142, 3 July 1937, Page 18
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