To encourage the scouts, Mark devised a bounty program, in which members of teams that captured at least five poachers would receive an extra month’s pay.
Leaving the riverbed, we drove uphill through a thick forest, past two scouts, who lay as motionless as the rocks around them, and stopped in a clearing in the wood guarded by two gunmen.
The main impediment the Owenses faced was the inertia of the scouts assigned to protect the park.
Some of the villagers told me that scouts turned their houses upside down searching under beds and sleeping MATS for weapons and in the rafters for dried meat.
Master Romney was out with his fellow cub scouts when they saw a girl riding on a horse.
He tried to flee across the Hungarian border, a route used by other scouts making their way to France to fight in the Free Polish forces there, only to be caught at the crossing.
Later, he orders his scouts, "If you see poachers in the national park with a firearm, you don't wait for them to shoot at you."You shoot at them first, all right?
In the letter, Owens described his plans to recruit more scouts for his "Airborne Special Operations."
During those times, the scouts would handcuff prisoners to a tree, but only for a few minutes and “in the shade.
During the next few years, I joined the seas scouts, read boating magazines and nautical books, and went to boat shows.
