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cash for the month of April. It will be observed that they bring the total, on Friday of last week, up to 24335 19s. led. We are extremely sorry to find that the outstanding success of our efforts to look after the officers and men of the Mechanical Transport Columns of the Army Service Corps should have led to an unjustified attack upon us in a contemporary. We refer to the lucubrations of a writer who signs himself "Owen John" in the pages of "The Autocar " ; this critic thinks that we should do something for the horse transport, and unfairly suggests that we have belittled that section of the A.S.C., and unduly glorified the motor men. We know the risks to which the motor men are exposed, in varying degrees admittedly, and our Despatches from the Front have borne testimony alike to the work of the M.T. columns as to the splendid behaviour of the men who belong to them. To deny that the M.T. men ever go right up to the Front is to misrepresent facts. We must repeat the amazement, to which we give expression elsewhere in this issue, that a writer of some standing in the motor Press should himself sneer at the work of the M.T. Columns. We never set out to raise the money for the Horse Columns, as other people did. We have no knowledge of the response which they obtained in this direction, but we must conclude from the outburst which we have perused that it has been no more satisfactory than the total of 500 shillings which was obtained for a more-extensive scheme shortly before Christmas last through the pages of the same contemporary. We are sorry to have to have taken up so much space on this disagreeable topic. List of Cash Donations for the Month of April.
Previously acknowledged ... ... ... ... £4001 6 8
A.S.C., M.T. Reserve Depot, Grove Park, S.E., per Colonel H. F.' T. Fisher (making £600) ... 150 0 0
A.S.C., M.T. Depot, Sergeants' Mess, 13ulford, per Limit-Col. F. Lindsay Lloyd (making £400 —£290 from Contingent Fund and £110 from Sergeants' Mess) ... ... ... ... ... 50 0 0 The Palmer Tyre, Ltd., London ... ... ... 50 0 0 A.S.C., M.T. Depot, Aldershot, per Colonel A. E. Coming (making £105) ... ... ... ... 25 0 0 Alley and MacLellan, Ltd., Polmadie, Glasgow (making £50) ... ... ... .. .. 25 0 0 Rubery, Owen and Co., Darlaston .... ... ... 10 10 0 St. Helen's Cable and Rubber Co., Ltd., War rington (making £15 15s.) ... ... ... ... 5 5 0 Employees of Jas. Bartle and Co., London (mak ing £17 lie. 8d.) ... ... ... ... ... 3 12 Sheppee Motor Co., York ... ... ... „. 3 3 Employees of Aldershot and District Traction Co., Ltd. (making £6 11s. 3d.) 2 2 0 Avon India Rubber Co., Ltd. (making £4 4s.) ... 2 2 0
Employees of Liverpool Vesta Cake Co. (making £410s. 6d.) ... ... ... ... ... I 1 0
D. M Pouting, London ... 1 1 0 J. Sandison, Singapore ... ... 1 1 0 J. V. Lloyd, Forest Gate ... ... ... 1 0 0 Lieut.-Colonel A. Mears, Calcutta ... 1 0 0 John Warrick and Co., Reading (making £2) 1 0 0 Mech. Staff, Acton Garage, L.G.O.C. ... 0 11 7 Collected by H. Kishere, Battersea, S.W. 0 9 0 S. E. Hooper, Walthamstow ... ... 0 5 0 M. R. Turner, Stanfjorden, Norway ... 0 5 0 Per W. L. Wilson, I3oxmoor... 0 5 0
7 0
Total' (to 30th April)
£4335 19 10