Our Campaign Comforts Fund.
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An Invitation to our Readers to "Come In " before Xmas. Double the Normal Rate of Despatching Now the Rule.
The Official Fund or the Mechanical Transport Columns and Units of the Army Service Corps.
President: H.R.H. Princess Arthur of Connaught.
Ladies Committee 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,
Hon. Sec. and Treasurer: 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 Wig-more, £.100.
the accompanying list of cash receipts Shows that a further 146 has been added to our resources in ample time for us to apply it to the meeting of requisitions which directly bear upon Christmas fare. The men in Mesopotamia, are being‘particularly considered by us just now, and they are to receive, after careful consideration of their claims by the Ladies Committee, special series of consignments of small. delicacies ; these have been commenced. The Ladies Committee has reached a similar conclusion in regard to the claims of the men who are with the Serbian Army, although the character of the comforts which will be addressed to them, via Salonika, will naturally differ from those which have been chosen a4d are still being chosen—for the Mesopotamian theatre of war.
We make a special appeal to our readers for help during the next fortnight. Spontaneous gifts of money are much more welcome, although a the same value intrinsically, than those for which we have to make particular application. We do feel, after running our eye over the lists of donors, that Rot a few members of the motor and tithed industries no doubt because of their excessive pre-occupation A. carrying out war service, have accidentally omitted to draw cheques in favour of the Fund.. We expect that the addition to our normal rate of despatch, which on the winter scale of:pa,cking varies between 120 and 130 eases monthly, will be swelled in . r6spect of the months of November and December to totals fully double as high. This not only means extra work, but meeting the bills quickly drains the exchequer unless it is copiously refilled.
Any contribution, be it of Is., £1 or.E10p, is 1/4„qua1ly acceptable from the point of view of the organizers and administrators of the Fund. Each gum kelps -to cheer up the 79,000officers and men'uf the MT., A.S.C.—reckoning the overseas strength alone—after whom we are doing our best to look so far as " coinforts" are concerned.
Notes of Appreciation.
"I hasten to send very grateful thanks for the excellent case of comforts which arrived to-day. I run arranging to distribute them myself amongst the m en . "—O. C. , En Siege Battery Amm. Col.
"The gramophone came safely to hand, and it is a very good machine, and so are the records which came with it. Please convey our thanks to the committee through whose kindness and generosity these comforts are made possibIe."-0.0. UR Arum. Sub. Park.