LORD ROBERTS'S APPEAL FOR FIELD GLASSES.
[To SHE EDITOR or THE "SrEcrAros."] SIR,—As you kindly allowed me to appeal through your columns to owners of field glasses to give the use of their glasses for our non-commissioned officers in the field, perhaps you will allow me to inform your readers of the result of my appeal. Up to the present I have received over fourteen thousand pairs of field glasses and stalking glasses. The glasses have been examined and classified by an expert, and they have been issued steadily to our gallant soldiers. I am asked by Field-Marshal Sir John French to say that stalking glasses as well as field glasses are found to be most useful. Many people who did not own field glasses kindly sent me cheques instead, and the money thus subscribed has been spent in buying the most suitable glasses procurable. I have sent a personal letter of thanks to all the owners of glasses, or subscribers, and I shall be very pleased to continue to acknowledge with gratitude any further donations of money or glasses which may be sent to me. It should be unnecessary to emphasize the real practical help which those who support my appeal are rendering to their gallant countrymen at the front. All the glasses are marked with an index number, and the names and addresses of the owners are carefully recorded at the offices of the National Service League, 72 Victoria Street, London, S. W., to which address all glasses and cheques should be sent. The soldiers to whom glasses are issued are asked, if possible, to return them after the war.—I
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