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Scouting Around the World Japan

Baden-Powell undertook

many travels all over the

world. On 2 April, 1912 he

was welcomed to Yokohama, BRITISH ASSOC IATION OF J..\PAN.

Japan by a cheering boatful of

Japanese Scouts and Scouts of

the British colony. He met

with Scouts and their leaders, LUNCHEON TOLIEUT.-GEN. ~IR ROBERT BADEfl-PJWELL.

attended receptions and

promoted Scouting wherever The Committee ha ve iuvited Sir l{ HEH 1· to L1111<.•h at Liu~ Yok/')hnmn United
Clu b (by kind permission <f the Y.l '. C ('un1mittee), 0 11 WEll~ESOA \-, :> r<l
he came.

The 1912 world tour was also April, nt 12.30.
most important for B-P
personally; it was on this trip Members of the AS<oeintion clcsirini.: 10 1><· pres< nl 11re r"')ue,1e<l to a· oace
that he met his future wife,
Miss Olave Soames, on board notify the undersigned .
the SIS Arcadian en-route
from England to the West A. L . IWB1:1\Hl. •.
Indies.
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1911 IY, s reply postal card, with privately printed invitation from the British Association of Japan.
Cancelled Yokohama, 1April,1912 and sent to Tokyo, receiving cancel 2 April. Reply section unused.