FRENCH WOUNDED EMERGENCY FUND.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE ”SPECTATOR.") Sin,—In the name of the French Wounded Emergency Fund we must express our grateful thanks to you and to the readers of the Spectator for the generous response made to the appeal for French military hospitals which you allowed us to insert in your columns about six weeks ago. Wo have now enlarged our borders, and have an organized motor service in fifteen departments, and in addition to surgical instruments and medical appliances we send off about one hundred and thirty bales, containing on an average twenty thousand garments, weekly. We have also opened work- rooms where bandages, clothing, and slippers are made, Any of your readers willing to give up a morning or afternoon each week to help in this work aro invited to apply to Mrs. Readily Fedden at 34 Lowndes Square.
Every post from France shows us the urgency of the need. Please help this important and necessary work. We require money, always money; blankets, pants, shirts, handkerchiefs, hot-water bottles, slippers, pyjamas, hospital-suits, socks, vests, sheets, pillow-cases (29 in. square) absorbent wool, gauze, oil silk,
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waterproof sheeting, air cushions, bandages, and games.
We shall also be most grateful for gifts of material—colourneid . flannel for shirts, unbleached calico, and material both for eon- sulipouinld ore sent to the valescent suits and bandages to be made gifts of clothinagt our headquarters at
All communications and
Hon. Secretary, Miss Evelyn Wyld,
84 Lowndes Square. Cheques and postal notes may be sent to the Hon. Treasurer, Hon. Cyril Russell, at the same address. Bankers, National Provincial, 208 Piccadilly. Hon. Auditor, J. S. Leo, Esq., H.M. Exchequer and Audit Department, Victoria Embankment.—We are, Sir, &c.,
DOREEN LINLITHGOW ; CONSTANCE CRAWFORD ; E. MARION BRYCE; ELEANOR CECIL ; E. RUSSELL OF KILLOWEN.
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