I said last week that I should discontinue importunity regarding
the Malta Shrine of Remembrance Fund, but that is no reason for- not stating facts. And the facts are (i) that the number of sub- scribers to date is r,000, and the total received ki,5oo ; (2) that a reader with great generosity has said that if ,e1,9oo is secured by the end of the year, he will give a final Doc) to round off the re- quired £2,000 ; (3) that several readers, with equal generosity in its way, have sent second donations—bis dat qui tiro dat being in this case literally true. One service contributor mentions that he has constantly worshipped in the Anglican Cathedral, that his parents first met one another on its steps, and that his wife came from an old Malta family ; another that she first learned of the Armistice in •1918 by hearing the Cathedral bells pealing on November nth as she came into harbour ; another that he had sung in the Cathedral choir, and that his wife and small daughters shared in all the island's ordeal down to June, 1942—and so on, much more than I have space
to quote.
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