Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-09-26
ENGLISH BOY AND
GIRL SCOUTS ARE
MAKING A RECORD
Busying Themselves in Military
Matters Throughout Length
And Breadth of the Isles and
Rendering Invaluable Service
ASSOCIATED Press Correspondence

ASSOCIATED Press Correspondence
London, Sept. 25-The Boy Scouts
of Great Britain are distinguishing
themselves in almost every way sug
gested by Juvenile fiction.
From the north of Scotland down
the eastern coast to the Isle of Wight
on the south, Sea Scouts are patrol
ing the shore, watching for the dread
ed Zeppelin or for some armed raider
that might have escaped the British
North Sea fleet with a view to sink
ing the army transports in the chan
mel. Railway bridges and reservoirs
are watched by camps of Scouts, re-
lieving the soldiers who are needed at
the front.
orders come into the Scout district
headquarters for Burglars for Lord
Kitchener,s new army, for British
buglers are from IA to IS years of age
and enlist by their parents consent
A Scout of IA at one office has received
the necessary consent and he gives
his comrades a wink of triumph as the
scoutmaster signs a letter to the re-
cruiting office. He will serve in the
Middlesex Public School Battalion.
These are some of the military as
of service useful to the public still is
supreme. Those entering Lord Kitchen
ers army as buglers are a mere hand
full out of the 900 scouts in Great
Britain Coast and railway patrols are
unarmed, and merely assist the mill
tary as eyes.
Owing to the rapid recruiting in war
time, no one-not even Sir Robert
Baden Powell-knows the exact num-
Der of Scouts In the United Kingdom
But in London alone there are $50 act
ing as orderlies in the war office, about
the same number in the admiralty,
tending to telephone calls and acting
as messengers, and 700 or more who
do the same service at the Red Cross
and recruiting headquarters. Besides,
there are about goo Scout cyclists,
who tend to important errand run
ming between the various stations
Scouts are to be found at every train,
guiding refugees with money to board
ing houses approved by the British Re-
lief Societies.
If anyone wants to learn about a GER
tain street, he calls for a path-flinder-
q scout who has obtained special rat
ing as guide in London, after pass
ing an examination even more severe
than that required by the County
Council for a taxi-chauffeur' license.
Scouts have been loaned to the Ameri-
can Relief Committee and the Ameri-
can embassy, where their services are
invaluable.
AS all Scouts above the rank of ten
derfoot understand signaling, their as
sistance is often called for in this re-
spect.
One thing that has particularly im>
pressed Americans in London is the
business-like and military air of the
British Scout He has no sheepish feel
ing about appearing in uniform He is
proud of his organization and takes
his duties seriously.
The Scouts are volunteers in the
fullest sense. even to paying for their
OWE uniforms. But a publicly assisted
canteen which serves meals at from
one to three pence now keeps down his
cost of living.
The Girl Guides. the feminine branch
of Baden Powell's organization, are no
less busy. There are more than 10000
of these guides in the Kingdom and
since the war their uniform has BECOME
quite familiar on London streets. The
girls are concerned. in part, in knit