WAR WORKERS THROUGHOUT THE EMPIRE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE
" SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It is very easy for our British public to realize the greatness of the work which our women war workers are achieving just now in Great Britain. It is not quite so easy in these days to realize as fully as perhaps we did in days gone by that we not only belong to, but are responsible for, the welfare of a great Empire. The Blue Triangle, which is the symbol of the Y.W.C.A. war work, is familiar not only in Great Britain, but is becoming known through- out our Empire. In Alexandria, in Bombay, in far-away Basra, we have opened clubs and rest-rooms for Army nurses. We have succeeded in making war workers who felt lonely in these far out- posts of our Empire so happy and at home in our hostels that in one place, although the nurses had the opportunity of going to one of the largest hotels, they chose to remain in our hostel. I do plead with your readers to help us in this work abroad. Salaries have to be paid, established work of great value maintained. The Overseas Department of the Y.W.C.A. is indeed labouring under difficulties. The home interests are so stupendous, such clamant appeals are being made for patriotic purposes, for War Loans and other war work, that it almost seems like a voice in the wilderness throwing out an appeal for these and other outposts of our Empire. But to the readers of the Spectator I feel I can confidently do this.' We are in need of £3,000, and I appeal to your readers to send me what they can. Large sums are needed as well as small, and a few cheques for £100 would be a veritable boon, so that those who are working with us in war work over the seas may realize that the thought and the sympathy of those in the Homeland are with them and that they are not forgotten.—I am, Sir, &c., E. PICTON-TURDERYILL.
26 George Street, Hanover Square, W. 1.
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