Our Campaign Comforts Fund.
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What It Means to Look After 79,000 Men. Cash Receipts and Gifts in Hind to Saturday Last.
The Official Fund for the Mechanical Transport Columns and Units of the Army Service Corps.
President H.R.R. Princess Arthur of Connaught.
Ladies Committee s Mrs. A. R. Crofton Atkins, Mrs. Shrapnell-Smith, Mrs. R. K. Bagnall-Wild, Mrs. H. E. Blain, Mrs. W. E. Donohue. Mrs. H. N. Foster.
lion. Sec. and Treasurers E. S. Shrapnell-Smith, 7-15, Rosebery Avenue, London, E.C.
THE MONEY FOR OUR MOTOR MEN AND HOW IT COMES.
PRINCIPAL SUPPORTERS FOR 1916-1917.
£120 (October to March): Albion; Associated Equipment ; Belsize ; Car and General Insurance; Clayton (Huddersfield); Commercars; Crossley; Daimler; Dennis; Hoyt Metal ; Leyland; Thornycroft ; Wolseley. £60 (October to March ) : Alley and MacLellan; Ferodo; Halley; Hans Renold; Scottish Commercial Cars. £10 Monthly: Foden, Four-Wheel-Drive Auto Co.; Hallford; Pratt's and Taxibus Spirits. £5 Monthly : Lucas; Macintosh; Maudslay; St. Helens Cable and Rubber; Shrewsbury-Challiner; Wolf (Solex); Wood-Milne. Lump Sums : A.S.C. (Corps) Fund, £250 (one grant); Dunlop, £100; Gaston, Williams and Wigmore, £100.
How many of our readers, we wonder, can correctly picture to themselves what it means• to be looking after the " comfort " of more than 79,000 officers and men who are overseas? Yet that is the position in which we are placed, having grown to it from an initial acceptance of this work when it concerned fewer than 10,000 officers and men. We believe there would be many more supporters of the Fund, especially at the present time—when consignments which have particular reference to the Christmas season are passing through our hands—were this one fact properly absorbed with all that it imports.
The organization of the M.T., A.S.O., is admitted to be one of the finest achievements of the many which have characterized the work of our fighting forces since the outbreak of war. The officers and men of the M.T., A.S.O.' have been entrusted to us, so far as the provision of " comforts " go, and we are in turn dependent upon those who help us financially in order to "carry on." This branch of the Army suffers, in respect of the provision of comforts generally, and even-in. some cases in respect to adequate financial support 'to buy them, because of the erroneous impression which is abroad that the men in it are overpaid. Again, it suffers because of its having no territorial connection, being raised as a Corps indiscriminately from all parts of the country, and in that respect its personnel being "nobody's children." Will not some of our readers whose names have not yet appeared in our list of principal supporters now decide that the present is a good time to help?
Further List of Gifts in Kind Received Up to 11th November, 1916.
From wool supplied by the Fund, 140 scarves. Miss Bethune, Fife (2 scarves).
Nurse Moor, S. Croydon (1 scarf). Miss Savill, Rutland Court (4 prs. of socks, 2 prs. of mit.
tens).
Mrs. 'Urquhart, Saxmundham (2 scarves).
Mrs. Biddle, Rye (2 scarves). Mrs. H. White, Chorley Wood (1 scarf). Lady Jane Lindsay, Portpatrick (1 scarf). Miss S. Bertram, Reston (2 prs. of socks, 3 scarves, 3 prs. of mittens).
Miss Nicholson, Torquay (5 scarves). Mrs. Crofton Atkins, Sydenham Park Road (6 scarves) Mrs. Grant, Surrey (2 scarves). Mrs. Balfour, Edinburgh (1 scarf). Mrs. Ashley, Tyache; Chichester (5 scarves).
The Offices of John Bull," Long Acre, W.C. (bundle of
papers).