EAST AFRICAN FIELD FORCE FUND.
[To ran Eynon or rem " Serc-Lerox."] Sza,—Some weeks ago you most kindly inserted in your columns an appeal in aid of the East African Field Force Fund, and con- siderable help was given us by your readers. May I again ask you to help us?
A cablegram has just been received by us, through the War Office, from General Wnpshare (who commands the forces) asking the E.A.F.F. Fund to send out "light oilskin capes, undervests and pants, coloured handerchiefs, toilet soap, tooth powder and brushes, tinned milk, pure cane sugar (for Indians, Africans, and Arab levies), cigarettes, cigarette papers, tobacco and pipes." Tho great rains begin in March and continue for three months, and the need of oilskin capes is very great; the ordinary waterproofed cape is absolutely wales. The capes are very expensive articles, and a considerable sum of money will be needed to procure them in large enough quantities. Tinned milk and sugar speak for themselves as the necessaries of life. Tooth powder is essential in a land where lime does not figure in the geological formation of the country, and hence teeth decay very rapidly. Within the last month seven thousand pairs of seeks, one thousand shirts, largo medical stores, including the equipment for one hospital, sixteen hundred periodicals, five thousand rough blankets for native troops, &c., have been sent out by us.
Our funds will be nearly exhausted in purchasing the goods now required, and I would beg for the generosity of your readers ill sending more gifts in kind, socks, shirts, medical stores, beside. those specified by General Wapshare, and the much-needed funds to buy the same. All gifts and cheques should be sent to me at the address below.—I am, Sir, he., EVELYN G. M. EDWARDS • (Eon. Sec. East African P.M Sores Fund). 113 Col...home Court, South Kensington.
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