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Organisations: Piarist Order
Locations: Amsterdam, Vienna, Paris

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Princes, Factory Hands Share Tents

MASS FOR ALL NATIONS AT ROVER MOOT
Front Our Own Correspondent
YOU MUST PUT AWAY YOUR WORRIES AND LIFT THE FRYING-PAN AT CRIEFF, IN PERTHSHIRE, WHERE THE THIRD WORLD ROVER SCOUT MOOT IS BEING HELD.
Young men of all countries, many of them Catholics, and all classes are together there, camping in the beautiful grounds of Monzie Castle.
Frenchmen were singing the Angelus as they went into the camp.
"NO CLASS DISTINCTIONS HERE" " In my country," he said, " there is no army. We have not, and never will have military intentions. " Class distinctions such as exist elsewhere are beyond the comprehension of my people, where in one family as many as three classes may be represented. One family may have its peasant, its professional man, and its court official." Prince Emanuel, who was educated In Vienna, is a broad shouldered young giant of six feet one. He refused accommodation provided for him in the Moot headquarters_ He shame the tent, the meals and the work of his boys. Our conversation ended. He smiled, shook hands, and a minute later was bending over a billy-can on the fire. Princes, too, must eat. Leaving the temporary home of the member of the royal family of Liechtenstein, I bumped Into another Rover who bears a strong resemblance to our King. He apologised profusely. He was H.R.H. Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden.
HUNGARY ELECTS A FREEST A great crude cross, shaped from Scottish fir, led me into the patch of land which is for the moment Hungary. There I met Father Bartori. college headmaster of Debrecen, a member of the Piarist Order, who was elected by the Protestant and Catholic Rovers of Hungary to lead their contingent to Scotland.
Father Bartori said that the Protestant lads had helped to erect the great cross; that they kneel in reverence during the devotions.
A young man with a panful of meat dashed up, grinned genially. He was Count Teleki, relative of the Hungarian Prime Minister of the same name. He shares his tent with a couple of working boys.
FRENCH ARRANGEMENTS "FLAWLESS" At the French contingent headquarters I met the young chaplain to the famous College Stanislas of Paris. " You are surprised that my name is Llewellyn?" he said. " Actually my ancestors were Welsh."
Father Llewellyn has with him three other French priests. He has in his care 125 Catholic Rovers, 25 Protestants, and 80 non-confessionals.
The Frenchmen's arrangements for the practice of their religious duties is flawless. On every tent is painted a statue of Notre Dame de France; on the hillside dominating the camp is an openair altar. It is to this altar that the Catholics of other nationalities come to hear Mass.
BELGIANS SINGING The Rev. van Besouw, of the Dutch contingent, who represents the Catholic Press of Amsterdam, told me that all his Dutch lade are daily communicants.
Crowds were gathered around the camp of Belgium, where a. composer was leading his colleagues in the singing of Chants de Route. Father Hainaut, S.3.. of Mons, and M. ie Abbe Perrin kept fatherly eyes on their boys.
At Poland, Stefan Piotrowski, professor of geography at Dabrowa Gornicza., showed me the superb work of the peasants of his country—feathery lace, fragile metals. Rover Hildebrande, youngest member of the contingent, is to be an opera singer. He introduced me to three smiling boys. They come from the world's danger spot—Danzig.
MASS FOR ALL NATIONS The Maltese are careful to take no chances where their Faith is concerned. When, at the last moment, their chaplain said he was unable to make the journey, they at once appointed a Religious Liaison Officer, whose duties are to lead the daily prayers, to see that the contingent may know of every facility to hear Mass and obtain the Sacraments.
Dom Bernard Sole, 0.S.B., Fort Augustus, who is chaplain-in-chief to the Catholic Rovers, told me that there were eight priests of different nationalities ministering to the Rovers. • All, he said, had expressed the hope that there would be a general Pontifical High Mass at which the various nationalities could attend. The Mass is, I understand, likely to be celebrated on Sunday.




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