資料：1937年5月15日《Hong Kong Daily Press》第1頁、第7頁
INSPIRING PAGEANT OF YOUTH
GUIDES’ AND SCOUTS’ RALLY
THRILLS FOR THOUSANDS OF SPECTATORS
Not since the dawn of Scout and Guide Movements in the history of this Colony has there been a display so spectacular, inspiring and memorable as that presented by members of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides Associations in connection with the Coronation celebrations.
The display was held at the Hong Kong Football Club Ground, Happy Valley, yesterday afternoon, under the distinguished patronage of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, Mr. N.L.Smith, C.M.G., who awarded the “Prince of Wales” Banner for 1936 to First Hong Kong Sea Scout and that for 1936-37 to Third Hong Kong Girl Guides Company.
Over a thousand youths participated in this brilliant display which was a pageant of patriotism, a hive of industry and a riot of colour.
Musical accompaniment was supplied by the Band of the First Battalion The Royal Ulster Rifles, by kind permission of Lt. Col. R.M.Rodwell and Officers, conducted by Bandmaster H.Alfred Hole A.R.C.M. The programme commenced with a melodious selection of Mydleton’s “The Rose” and a march “Long Live the King” Hume.
Mr. A.Grad, Assistant Commissioner, was entirely responsible for the production of this display and its success was due in no small measure to his efforts.
There was a capacity audience who judging by their cheering and applause, certainly enjoyed the show.
PAGEANT OF SCOUTING
The display commenced with a pageant of scouting, illustrating the inception growth and spread of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide Movements throughout the World.
The first group which represented the commencement of the Scout Movement in 1908 was headed by a number of scouts and friends of the movement, illustrating the characters used by the Chief Scout in his book “Scouting for Boys” as examples for scouts to follow. Thus there was St. George, the Patron Saint of England, on his white charger – the cyclist orderlies of Mafeking who proved, during that memorable siege, what boys could do as explorers, frontiersmen, backwoodsmen and pioneers.
The second group represented the Girl Guide Movement which was started in 1910, as also was the Sea Scout Section which formed the third Group.
The fourth and fifth groups, which greeted the audience, in their own particular manner, with the help of their brothers and sisters from the edges of the arena, were the Wolf Cubs and Brownie Sections which catered for younger boys and girls, from eight to twelve years of age.
THE EMPIRE
Then there were groups representing a number of countries and part of the Empire – England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Hong Kong, Holland, India, Canada, China, Australia, United States, Egypt, Malaya – where Scouting and Guiding flourish.
The demonstration of National Games and pastimes was given by the Third Hong Kong Company, Girl Guides, Third Hong Kong Scouts, combined Fourth Hong Kong and Kowloon Troops, and Eighth Kowloon Scouts, who respectively did the English Country Dances, Scottish Highland Games, Canadian Rope Spinning and Chinese Games. A roll of drums signalled the end of this item, when each display group went off quickly. The Highland Games marched off, the dancers tripped off the Chinese Games ran off and the ropers spinned off.
The Recession of Pageant was followed by a display of Highland Dancing by members of the Third Hong Kong (Seaforth’s Group)
SCOUTCRAFT
The displays of Bridge Building, Signalling, Chinese Boxing, Backwards Drill, Pioneering, and Trek Cart were respectively enacted by Fourth Kowloon Scouts, First Hong Kong Guides, First Hong Kong Sea Scouts, Sixth Kowloon Guides, First Hong Kong Scouts, and First Kowloon and Fourth Hong Kong Scouts combined. Another Chinese Boxing display was presented by the Eleventh Kowloon Scouts, while tower building for signallers, was performed by Second, Tenth and Thirteenth Hong Kong Groups combined.
The Tumbling display by the First Diocesan Boys’ School (Sixth Kowloon) Troop was a pageant of splendour, rivalling anything of this nature that has yet been seen here. It completely won the appreciation of the audience for it was splendid in every sense of the word not only in its acrobatic skill but also in its incomparable humour. The success of this was due to the excellent instructions given by the Scoutmaster, Mr. G.S.P.Heywood.
PHYSICAL DISPLAY
Games by the Wolf Cubs and Brownies of Hong Kong and Kowloon were followed by a Physical Display by scouts of various troops after which came the presentation of awards by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, who, after presenting the “Prince of Wales” Banners to the Scout and Guide winners, presented a silver cup to the First Kowloon Girl Guides Company, the runner-up in the “Prince of Wales” Banner competition. His Excellency also gave a letter to Peter Cook, of the First Hong Kong (Sea Scout) Pack written by Mr. Hampton on behalf of the Chief Scout, Lord Baden Powell, as follows:-
Dear Peter,
I live a very long way from you, all the same the news of your plucky deed in October last has come all this way to me.
I am just writing on behalf of the Chief Scout, who is away in India to tell you how glad I am that you had both eyes open and did exactly the right thing. It was a real Good Turn and a credit to your Pack and to Cubs everywhere.
Your sincere friend,
(SD.) HAMPTON
Chief Commissioner.
Then came the final item. The entry of Britannia (Mrs. H.Owen Hughes) was a procession of colours and a formation of “Wheel” Rally.
BRITANNIA
Britannia majestically entered and stood on the centre of the platform. Colours massed on either side of the platform and butts were placed on the ground. Rovers, Deep Sea Scouts, Guiders and Scouters proceeded to the Centre and formed a ring while two Deep Sea Scouts stood around colours and the platform.
Eight “spokes” formed up outside the arena and each consisted of sixty members, the smaller ones being left out. All Rovers, Deep Sea Scouts, Guiders and Scouters, except one in charge of each “spoke,” formed up in one group in readiness to form the Hub. The smaller scouts and guides were divided into eight equal groups, while cubs and brownies got ready in their places and the eight Cubmasters for markers stood in a group just inside the arena.
The eight Cubmasters spaced out thirty two spaces at angles of forty five degrees, while the eight spokes doubled on in single file led by the three physical training spokes.
The eight groups of small scouts and guides then doubled into place, one group was at the outer end of each spoke where they started to form the rim. Cubs and Brownies scampered into place in eight equal sections and formed the rim.
When the Band started to play the Wheel steadily and slowly revolved once, except the rim of cubs and brownies who stood still, facing outwards. When they returned to their starting place, they all faced outwards again.
After the first chord had been played by the Band, everybody joined in Singing “God Save The King,” which concluded the display.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE PRESENTATION
There was a very pleasant (and informal) ceremony at Government House yesterday morning when the Hong Kong Boy Scouts Association presented His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, Mr. N.L.Smith, C.M.G., with a copy of the Coronation Souvenir Programme.
Four King’s Scouts- R.Maycock, 4th Hong Kong (Murray) Troop; Shui Ka Wing, 1st Hong Kong Sea Scout; Stephen Wong, 1st Hong Kong (St. Joseph’s) Troop; W.FitzGibbon, 2nd Hong Kong Catholic Troop, formed the delegation which made the presentation, and on the programme was inscribed:-
“Presented with the compliments of the Boy Scouts Association on the occasion of the Coronation of Their Patron His Majesty King George VI to commemorate the Empire Wide Good Turn of the Boy Scouts in distributing the Official Souvenir Programme.”
翻譯：
令人鼓舞的青年盛會
女童軍及童軍會操
引來了過千名觀眾
自從童軍及女童軍運動於本地開始流行以來，都未曾出現過像這次加冕慶典般，如此壯觀、鼓舞及難忘的表演。
會操於昨午在跑馬地香港足球會球場舉行，行政官史美先生 CMG聖米迦勒及聖佐治同袍勳章 (Mr. N.L.Smith)親臨會場，並將威爾斯太子錦標頒予1936年獲勝的香港第1海童軍，以及1936-37年度獲勝的香港第3女童軍隊。
超過千名青少年參與了這場精彩絕倫，充滿愛國情懷、欣欣向榮、色彩繽紛之盛會。
現場音樂由皇家阿爾斯特步槍團(Royal Ulster Rifles)第1營樂團演奏，樂隊由羅德威中校(Lt. Col. R.M.Rodwell)及其他軍官領隊，並由豪輅 ARCM皇家音樂學院副院士 (H.Alfred Hole)指揮。開場音樂包括悠揚的米德爾頓(Mydleton)「玫瑰」(The Rose)選段，以及「國王萬歲」(Long Live the King)。
助理總監嘉勒先生(Mr. A.Grad)為本次活動負責人，整個活動之成功必需歸功於他的努力付出。
就現場眾多之觀眾此起彼落之歡呼及掌聲，證明他們十分欣賞這次表演。
童軍盛會
活動序幕為一場童軍盛會，展示童子軍及女童軍運動之起源、發展及傳播至世界各地。
第一組隊伍代表1908年童軍運動的起源，由多名童軍及知友組成，領頭的童軍以總領袖著作《童軍手冊》(Scouting for Boys)所繪之形象帶領着小童前進。接着是英格蘭主保聖人聖佐治(St. George)，坐着白色坐騎。單車隊令人回憶起梅富根(Mafeking)圍城戰，一眾小童當時進行了探險、拓荒、野營及先鋒工程。
第二組隊伍象徵1910年開展的女童軍運動，而第三組隊伍則代表海上童軍活動。
第四及第五組隊伍，在他們的大哥哥及大姐姐從旁協助下，以獨特的方式向觀眾致意，他們就是小狼及小棕仙隊伍，其成員只有8至12歲。
大英帝國
接着的隊伍象徵着世界各國及帝國各地：英格蘭、蘇格蘭、愛爾蘭、威爾斯、香港、荷蘭、印度、加拿大、中國、澳大利亞、美國、埃及、馬來亞(Malaya)，童軍及女童軍都在這些地方有蓬勃的發展。
接着表演的民族遊戲及娛樂，表演者來自香港第3女童軍隊、香港第3童軍、香港第4及九龍第4童軍聯隊、九龍第8童軍，他們表演了英格蘭鄉村舞、蘇格蘭高地遊戲、加拿大套索、中國遊戲。隨着一段鼓聲響起，序幕完結，眾人急速離場，高地遊戲、鄉村舞、中國遊戲及套索隊亦接着離場。
小休時段，有香港第3童軍(施福戍軍)在場表演高地舞蹈。
童軍技能
接着演示的橋樑搭建、旗號、中國武術、倒後步操、先鋒工程、手拉車，表演者來自九龍第4童軍、香港第1女童軍、香港第1海童軍、九龍第6女童軍、香港第1童軍、九龍第1及香港第4童軍聯隊。另一組表演中國武術的隊伍是九龍第11童軍，搭建旗號塔的則是香港第2、第10、第13童軍聯隊。
由拔萃男書院(九龍第6)旅表演的翻滾表演為全場焦點，其精彩程度可謂無與倫比。其雜技技巧以及歡笑幽默，徹底贏得所有觀眾之關注。表演之成功，全賴旅長(Scoutmaster)希活先生(Mr. G.S.P.Heywood)之出色指導。
體操
來自香港及九龍的小狼及小棕仙進場演示遊戲，來自不同隊伍之童軍表演體操，接着是行政官閣下頒授物品，在頒授威爾斯太子錦標予童軍及女童軍優勝隊伍後，閣下宣讀了漢伯頓先生(Mr. Hampton)代總領袖貝登堡勳爵(Lord Baden Powell)寫給香港第1(海童軍)的小狼彼得(Peter Cook)的信件：
親愛的彼得，
你我彼此雖然相隔很遠，然而，我已得知你於去年10月的英勇事跡。
我謹代表身在印度的總領袖，恭賀你已開拓你的視野，並且做出了正確的事。這是一件真正的善事，你已為你所屬的小狼旅，以至所有小狼增添聲譽。
你的摯友，
(署名)漢伯頓
英國總監
接着是最後節目，是不列顛尼亞女神(曉士夫人(Mrs. H.Owen Hughes)飾演)與旗手進場，並進行了圓輪步操。
不列顛尼亞女神
不列顛尼亞女神莊嚴地走進場中之平台，各旗幟於平台兩則插立於地。羅浮童軍、深海童軍、女童軍領袖、童軍領袖於平台周圍組成圓環，2名深海童軍則站立於旗幟與平台之間。
場外由每組60名成員組成了8組圓輪半徑輻條線，當中沒有小童。各羅浮童軍、深海童軍、女童軍領袖、童軍領袖，除了每條半徑線之指揮領袖外，皆相聚於圓心組成圓輪軸。年幼的童軍及女童軍分為8個小組，小狼及小棕仙亦準備就緒，8名小狼旅長亦於會場中就位。
8位小狼旅長一起在每45度角空間共劃分出32個區域，8組半徑輻條線在3個體操環的帶領下各自排成一列進場。
8組年幼的童軍及女童軍隨後進場，分別抵達半徑輻條線之邊緣後，小狼及小棕仙們開始展開組成圓周輪圈。
隨着樂隊開始奏樂，圓輪開始緩慢地轉了一圈，其間圓周輪圈之小狼及小棕仙站立不動，面朝向外。當圓輪走了一圈後，所有人士皆面朝向外。
樂隊演奏出音樂第一節，所有觀眾一同跟上節奏，合唱「天佑國王」(God Save The King)，活動由此結束。
總督府獻禮
昨日早晨於總督府進行了一個愉快(並且非正式)的儀式，香港童子軍總會向行政官史美先生 CMG聖米迦勒及聖佐治同袍勳章 獻上加冕紀念冊。
4位京童軍(King’s Scout)代表：香港第4旅(美利)梅愨(R.Maycock)、香港第1海童軍冼家榮(Shui Ka Wing)、香港第1旅(聖若瑟)黃史提芬(Stephen Wong)、香港第2旅(主教座堂)費茨本(W.FitzGibbon)。4人組成代表隊，並發展獻詞：
「藉着童子軍總會贊助人國王佐治六世陛下加冕喜慶之際，於帝國發揚童子軍行善精神，將官方加冕紀念冊贈與予你。」
昨日早上在總督府獻禮後，行政官史美先生與童子軍總監侯利華牧師(Rev. Halward)正在閒談。
資料：1937年5月15日《Hong Kong Daily Press》第16頁