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Show BOY SCOUTS SHOW VALOR ON STEAMER When Britannic Is Torpedoed Lads Assist As-sist Officers and Passengers and Prove to Be Young Heroes. ATHENS, Dec. 30. The personal experiences ex-periences of a party of British boy scouts who were aboard the Britannic when that vessel was struck by a German torpedo have Just been made public, and show that the little chaps are built of the stuff from which heroes are made. The scouts came from Southampton, Liverpool and Gravesend. They had been shipped to make themselves generally useful. use-ful. After the explosion each lad went calmly to an allotted post to assist a ship's officer. of-ficer. A thirteen-year-old boy named Pope not only remained in the ship for half an hour after she had been struck, but also collected many small articles belonging be-longing to passengers. Scout Perman of Southampton worked the ship's lift, bringing many passengers to the upper decks. Another Southampton boy, Victor Mackenzie, when ordered to sound certain steam whistles, knew exactly ex-actly which handles to pull. Scout Percy Dickson remained so long at his post that he had to let himself down from the ship, which then had a heavy list, hand over hand on a rope to the lifeboat. The boys, whose ages vary from 12 to 16 years, have since visited Athens, where they were warmly praised by the British minister and entertained by some Greek scoots. |