EAST AFRICAN FIELD FORCE COMMITTEE. [To TEE EDITOR OP THE
" SPECTATOR.") am writing on behalf of the East African Field Force Committee to ask if you will be so kind as to insert a pressing appeal in the columns of your valued newspaper for the East African Field Force Fund. This has been started with the full knowledge and approval of the Colonial and War Offices to provide clothes, comforts, and medical necessaries for the troops operating in East Africa. There is a largo force of European,
tiadian, and African troops. The casualties have been very heavy. The country is extremely difficult dense bush, and malarial in parts. The troops are in need of almost the necessaries of life. The Fund h'ive been granted free entry and transport of their goods throughout East Africa by the Government, and the shipping companies have most kindly agreed to carry everything free of freight charges.
The most pressing needs are khaki shirts (with collars and pockets), socks, chocolate, soap, cocoa, Bovril, Lemco, hospital comforts and medical requisites of every kind, tobacco, cigarettes,
&c., or money to buy the same. The goods will be consigned to the Chief Staff Officer, who will have a small distributing Com- mittee under him in East Africa. If you can see your way clear to insert an appeal from us we shall be most grateful. Cheques and gifts in kind may be sent to me. I append a list of the Committee.—I am, Sir, &c., (Mra. W. F. S.) E. G. M. EDWARDS, 1ton. Sec. E.A.F.F. Fund.
113 Coleherne Court, South Kensington, S.W.
List of Committee of the East African Field Force Fund :— President : Viscount Cobham. Chairman: Major H. Leggett, D.S.O. Members: H.H. The Maharajah of Bikaner, the Duchess of Sutherland, the Countess of Bective, Viscountess Tredegar, the Lady Hindlip, the Lady Cranworth, Lady Lugard, Lady Jackson, Mrs. Lewis Harcourt, Mrs. Aitken, Mrs. Barclay, Mrs. Macmillan, Mrs. H. Leggett, Mrs. Lawrence Philipps, the Lord Inchcape, Sir Owen Philipps, Duncan Bardon, Esq., Gordon Johnson, Esq., Frank Ward, Esq., V. H. Wilson, Esq. Joint Hon. Secretaries and Treasurers: Mrs. Edwards and H. Oakley Smith, Esq.
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