AN APPEAL FOR PARIS.
[To TIM EDITOR OP TEM "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—At the outset of the war, when those who were not already away en vacances made haste to quit the city, the two English chaplains hurried back to Paris, their annual holiday barely begun, and have ever since been tireless in efforts of help and succour. Two or three weeks later occurred the panic which emptied a great part of Paris. The English chaplains resolutely stayed on, redoubling their efforts. The chaplain of St. George's, in his youth himself a soldier, the son of the veteran Sir Frederick Cardew, the son-in-law and brother-in-law of soldiers, and whose son aged seventeen wa one of the first to volunteer for the front, is better fitted than most civilians to deal with the present situation. He and his wife are, in their own line, literally " on active service " here. By their means a British Red Cross Hospital has been established and is now overflowing into various ambulances. The roomy Paris Lodge of the Girls' Friendly Society has been utilized as a house where soldiers may go in at any hour, have a bath, find a change of linen. At St. Denis, on the way from Meaux, a soldiers' tearoom was established. An ouvroir is busy daily with poor British women, who receive fair payment for the articles of clothing made there for the soldiers. Unflagging activity is shown in the task of repatriation of British sub- jects of all classes, and of fugitives from different parts of France and from other countries. All this entails, of course, enormous outlay. We appeal to England to remember the wounded and poverty-stricken here. Gifts may be addressed to the Rev. F. Anstruther-Cardew, 7 Rue Auguste-Vacquerie, Avenue d'Iena, Paris, or to Miss Wolff at the address below. Long, warm woollen vests are one of the chief necessities now the weather is damp and growing cold, and soldiers, after long marches, are often unable to find a shelter or straw to lie on at night.—I am, Sir, tto., I. S. WOLFF. 70 Rue d'Auteuil, Path (XVII.