資料：1940年6月7日《The Hongkong Telegraph》第2頁
Story of Scouts’ Swastika Badge
Why H.K. Scoutmaster Can’t Wear His Any More
Brother Frederick Grimshaw, S.C. Scoutmaster of the 16th H.K. (St. Louis) troop, can’t wear his Boy Scouts’ Thanks Badge any more. It happened like this….
Centuries before modern history began, the Sanskrit speaking people who flooded over Europe and Western Asia as ancestors of many modern races, brought with them a religious symbol so old that even today scientists do not know its origin.
It was roughly in the shape of a cross with turned ends. It may have been a symbol for fire or for the sun. No one knows. But it reached, with different associations, nearly every country of Europe.
It was found on medieval churches as one of the many Cross variants. It had religious meaning to the people of India and Finland (who still use it).
For Europe, this religious signification died in the Reformation. But the hooked cross lingered on as a good luck charm. Rudyard Kipling, who found it in India, used it on the front page of all his books. The Boy Scouts Association used it for the Thanks Badge presented to people who do a good service to a scout.
Then one day, a mystic, dream crazed Austrian house painter found the hooked cross on the wall of an old German church. It impressed him. He adopted it as the symbol of the new party he had formed in Germany.
From that moment the hooked cross had another, frightening meaning. Inside six years it stood for the Nazi air fleets that brought terror to the people of Spain, of Czechoslovakia, Poland, Holland, Belgium, Norway, Denmark, for the men who dreamed of world conquest.
One of Kipling’s last acts was to order the Swastika to be removed from all new editions. The Boy Scouts Association changed its thanks Badge to an arrow head design.
So Brother Grimshaw, like Canon Blakeny of Wombwell, Yorkshire – neither has yet obtained a new badge – can’t wear his Thanks Badge any more. These days a Swastika badge is likely to be misunderstood.
翻譯：
童軍卐字章的故事
為何香港童軍旅長不再配戴
香港第16旅(聖類斯)旅長(Scoutmaster)利眾修士 SC仁愛修會 (Brother Frederick Grimshaw)，不能再配戴童子軍感謝章了。事情是這樣的…
在歷史走入現代以前，一眾梵語民族逐漸遷入歐洲及西亞地區，並成為了多個民族的共同祖先，而隨之引入之各種宗教符號，連現在的專家也不知道它們的來歷。
這種類似末端彎曲的十字，可能是火焰或太陽的標誌，無人知曉，卻得以流傳至歐洲各國的不同團體。
部份中世紀的教堂亦有這種變種十字架符號，這符號在印度及芬蘭亦有其宗教意義(現在亦有使用)。
在歐洲，這符號隨着宗教改革而停用，但這帶鈎十字繼續以幸運符一直流傳。吉普林(Rudyard Kipling)在印度看到這個符號，並在他的每部著作首頁用上這個符號。而童子軍總會亦使用這符號作為感謝章，並頒發予曾為童軍提供良好服務之人士。
直到有一天，一位怪裡怪氣、有着瘋狂思想的奧地利油漆工人，在一座古老德國教堂的牆上看到了這個帶鈎十字，令他印象深刻。後來他在德國成立新政黨時就用了這個標誌作為黨徽。
就由這時候開始，這個帶鈎十字就有了另一個可怕的意義。這6年來，納粹空軍為西班牙、捷克斯洛伐克(Czechoslovakia)、波蘭、荷蘭、比利時、挪威、丹麥的人民帶來恐懼，一切只因為有人夢想統治全世界。
吉普林臨終前其中一個行動，就是決定在新版書籍中全面移除卐字標誌。而童子軍總會亦把感謝章改用箭頭標誌。
所以利眾修士，與約克郡沃姆韋爾鎮(Wombwell, Yorkshire)的布克尼(Canon Blakeny)一樣，未收到新款獎章，又不能配帶舊款感謝章，就是因為現時卐字章實在太容易引來誤會了。
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