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Our " Campaign Comforts" Fund.

12th November 1914
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Page 1, 12th November 1914 — Our " Campaign Comforts" Fund.
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Valuable Co-operation from the War Office.

Our " Campaign Comforts Fund makes excellent headway. There can be no better proof of the need for it, or for the claim which it makes upon our supporters generally. That support is disclosed to Monday last in the list of cash donations. We are again able to spare the space to publish the donation list in extenso, but we may be obliged, in future issues, to adopt the " previously acknowledged" system, although we hope to avoid that curtailtmant for several weeks to come. The Fund, to Monday afternoon last, had reached the gratifying total of 1324. There is every reason and every justification, we believe, to assume that it will grow steadily and deservedly to a four-figure total. It can only do so if our readers stand by us in these efforts.

We devote one page and a-half to recounting the progress of the Fund. Amongst the several new evidences of assistance which we are in a position to report, none is more gratifying to us than the recent issue from the War Office of the notice which we quote. The request has gone out from Whitehall, and it cannot fail to add very considerably to the number of gifts in kind which will reach us. The result will be that our Fund will in several respects be relieved of demands upon it for cash to make purchases. We expect, as a matter of fact, to be able to allocate the cash receipts in the following proportions, although no final scheme has yet been adopted: tobacco and cigarettes, 40 per cent. ; gloves, 40 per cent_ ; other purchases, expenses of packing, and transport to port of shipment, 20 per cent. Fuller details, of course, will be announced by us in due course, and after a further meeting of the ladies committee has been held.

It will be observed, in the course of the article which appears on this subject in another part of the issue, that a well-known London firm of chartered accountants has kindly agreed to act as honorary auditors to the Fund.

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Organisations: War Office, Comforts Fund
Locations: London

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