Plucky Boy Scouts.
A FIGHT WITH APACHES. EXCITING FRENCH INCIDENT. [By Electric telegraph— Copyright] Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8.0 a.m.) Paris, May 7. A troop of sixty boy scouts who marched to Labourgex outside the fortifications, were greeted by a gang of Apaches with hoots and jeers. On returning, the Apaches were lying in .wait, and met the scouts with a volley of stones. The scouts deployed and a ten-min-ute battle ensued. The Apaches were beaten off, the scouts’ staves being broken on the heads of the enemy. The police state that twelve of the Apaches had to bo assisted from the field. The Apaches pursued a desultory fire with revolvers, and one scout was wounded with a bullet in the thigh.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 15, 8 May 1914, Page 5
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124Plucky Boy Scouts. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 15, 8 May 1914, Page 5
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