BEATEN BY BOY SCOUTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1263, 25 June 1914, Page 4

BEATEN BY BOY SCOUTS.

TABLESTURNED ON ANARCHIST.

Two hundred anarchists and socialists were routed on a recent Sunday by 60 French boy scouts. The latter were going to visit the war monument at Le Bourget, where so many battles took place during the siege of Baris. Outside the fortifications, the bugles and drums of the scouts’ baud were greeted with hoots and jeers by the socialists, who had gathered there to break up a political meeting.

On the return of the scouts from their march the socialists were lying in wait for them, and met them with a volley of stones, At the order of the scoutmaster, the scouts at once replied, and fell on the enemy with their staves. A ten minutes’ battle took place, at the end of which the socialists were beaten off. Twelve scouts’ staves were broken on the heads ot the enemy, and several of their bugles were dented for the same reason. One of the anarchists, it is said, left an ear on the battlefield.

lu spite of the victory, the scouts’ commander deemed it wise to retire, and a retreat was skilfully effected to the gates of Paris, under a desultory fire from the enemy’s revolvers. One scout was wounded by a bullet in the thigh. According to the police, who proceeded to the scene, twelve anarchists had to be assisted from the field.