MINSTRELS AS TRAMPS
A group of German youths was lately visiting New York city on the first stage of a tramping trip around the world. The hikers are memhers of a large cultural organisation in Germany known as the Wandering Birds of the Rhine. They will each receive one year's credit in any university in Germany when their twoyear trip around the world has been • completed. The boys, who are accompanied by ■ a leader, wear a special travelling costume, including sh'ort trousers and tramping shoes and socks. They give musical entertainments along their route, specialising in iteras suitable to the Goethe centennial being held this year. They also give a presentation of Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell," and sing G'erman folk songs. The group includes ten members. They are equipped for outdoor sleeping, and they will probably aceept rides from buses or trucks on some parts of their long trek across the American Conti'nent.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 292, 4 August 1932, Page 3
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152MINSTRELS AS TRAMPS Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 292, 4 August 1932, Page 3
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