Our Campaign Comforts Fund.
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Requisitions for the Winter Months Already Coming In.
The Fund Continues to Help Succour Prisoners of War.
The Official Fund for the Mechanical Transport Columns and Units of the Army Service Corps.
Patroness: H.R.R. Princess Arthur of Connaught.
Hon. Sec. and Treasurer: E. S. Shrapnell-Amith, 7-15, Rosebery Avenue, London, E.C.
THE MONEY FOR OUR MOTOR MEN AND HOW IT COMES.
PRINCIPAL SUPPORTERS TO DATE FOR 1915.1916.
£10 Monthly; Associated Equipment ; Car and General; Commercars; Crossley ; Crown and Shell Spirits; Daimler; Dennis; Dunlop ; Foden; Four-Wheel-Drive Auto Co.; Gaston, Williams and Wigmore; Hanford; Hoyt Metal; Thos, B. Jeffery; Leyland; Locomobile; Packard; Pierce-Arrow; Pratt's and Taxibus Spirits; Thornycroft ; Wolseley.
£5 Monthly Alley and MacLellan; Ferodo; Halley; Lucas; Macintosh; Maudslay; Hans RenoId; St. Helens Cable and Rubber; Scottish Commercial Cars; Shrewsbury-Challiner; Spencer Moulton; Woad-Milne;
Wolf (Solex)
Lump Sums: Peerless Co., £120; President. Peerless Co., £120; Treasurer. Peerless Co., £100; Staff, Peerless Co. £85; Albion, £75; Belsize, £50; Heath Harrison, Esq., £50; Karrier, £50; J. Keele. Ltd., £50; Napier, £50. A.S.C. Central (Corps) Fund.—£1100 (six grants) ; and Wolf (Solex), Napier car Scarves and Socks Wanted.
The accompanying list of cash receipts brings the income side of our 1915-1916 Comforts Fund Account up to the 16th inst. (Saturday last). It may interest many of those who have consistently helped this fund since its institution, and who are now in course of extending their promises sZi that we may "carry on" efficiently during the coming winter, to know that we have already received a large number of early requisitions from the officers in command of ntiwerous Columns and Units overseas, to the effect that winter comforts are more appreciated than summer comforts, and expressing the hope that we may be in a position, during the early months of the winter more particularly, to send out liberal consignments. We accordingly appeal for early supplies of
woollen scarves and socks. • 247 10s. a Month for Prisoners of War.
Apropos the A.S.C. Prisoners of War Fund, which has during the past few months been under the direct care of Mrs. A. R. Crofton Attkins and Lieut.-Col. C. V. Holbrook, our contributions to aid the unfortunate drivers and other• men of the A.S.C., who have fallen into the hands of the enemy, have been at the rate of 237 10s. per month since June. They were at the rate of 225 a month from the previous October. We have additionally, and we are sure with the entire concurrence of our principal supporters, been helping the Royal Automobile Club, since May, at the rate of 210 a month, to send necessaries and small luxuries to the motor drivers who are interned at Ruhlebeir Writing under date the 12th inst., Mr. Julian W. Orde, secretary of the R.A.C., acknowledges this help in the following terms: "I see that once again you kindly enclose a cheque for 210 to help the R.A.C. Prisoners of War Fund. We are indebted to THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR Campaign Comforts Fund, for it is obvious that with
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out the useful sum of 210 a month we could not have done so much for the unfortunate men at Ruhleben as we have done. The official receipt is enclosed herewith." This outlay of 210 a. month since May is the only one which we have sanctioned that in any way goes beyond the strictest application of our receipts to enlisted men of the A.S.C., M.T. There is no doubt that, but for the fact of their being in Germany at the time of the outbreak of war, and of their subsequent internment, the motor drivers who were taken to Ruhleben, and who are known to have suffered great hardships and privations, would have been in the A.S.C., M.T.