Relay Post
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Section titled “Translated text”During many exercises, a relay post is set up for the rapid transmission of messages, as if a single messenger could do it. Scouts are positioned in a single long line every 50–150 paces, and a note, handed to the last scout, passes sequentially from hand to hand until it reaches the recipient. The note is marked with the speed of delivery using one, two, or three crosses. One (X) means a brisk march, two (XX) a normal run, three (XXX) a fast run.
The relay post is set up quickly and should operate efficiently. This can be practiced by combining such a setup with an exercise. For example: There are three patrols of 8 scouts each and 3 patrol leaders. The scouts will act as messengers, the patrol leaders as scouts. I need to verify whether the bridge over the river in the direction of Pn is occupied by the enemy. From the map, I calculate the distance to be 840 m. The first patrol sets out and, every 120 paces (60 double paces), leaves one scout behind. Each stands in concealment. The relay post is set up over a distance of 840 m. The patrol leader writes: ‘Bridge clear, the second patrol is to set up a relay post to village A in the direction of Z and report that the post is ready (X)’. The note passes from hand to hand, each scout moving at a brisk pace; the last one hands the note to the second patrol leader. He calculates the required spacing for the messengers, sets up a new line, and a message returns to the front of the first line: ‘Second relay post to village A ready (××)’; this time, the messengers carry the note at a run. The third message reads: ‘I am withdrawing the first line; the third patrol is to extend the second line as far as the forest beyond village A; await further orders (××)’. After the first line is withdrawn, I send a fourth note: ‘Withdraw the entire second line, assemble at the original location (××)’. The second line is withdrawn, the three patrols gather together, and the exercise is discussed.
The sign of three crosses is used exceptionally when the fastest possible transmission of a very important message is required. During the same exercise, it may be used at most twice, provided the distance between two scouts does not exceed 100 m and there is time for rest.
Scouts who serve in front of the relay line must always know where its beginning is.
A dispatch may also be passed verbally. In that case, we also have an exercise in properly receiving a report.
Source scan: Polona / National Library of Poland, marked ‘Public domain’. View scan — PDF pages 189–190.
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- Source: Zygmunt Wyrobek, Harcerz w polu: zabawy i gry terenowe (1946)
- Printed pages: 183–184 / PDF 189–190
- Digital edition: Digital edition · Source record
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