THE WEST INDIAN CONTINGENT COMM/TTER. [To ma MIMI% or TEE
"Slum-mm."1 Sra,—The Army Council having accepted the offer of the British West Indies, British Guiana, and British Honduras to supply a contingent for service with the Imperial forces, the under-men- tioned Colonies are sending detachments, the total strength of which will be about two thousand men : the Bahamas, Barbados, British Guiana, British Honduras, Jamaica and Turks Islands, the Leeward Islands, the Windward Island and Trinidad and Tobago.
At the instance of the Secretary of State for the Colonies a. Committee has been formed to provide for the welfare and comfort of these men, of some hundreds who have already coma over independently, and of others who may come over from the West Indies to enlist in the new armies. The Governer of Bermuda, which has a detachment at the front, has. accepted. the offer of ther Committee to help the men from that Colony also. We believe that the spirit-which has made our fellow-subjects overseas claim to show their devotion to their King and country, and to play their part in upholding the unity and honour of the Empire, will meet with general admiration. The West Indian Contingent will be drawn chiefly from chums untravellectand unfamiliar with the life of European communities. It is hoped, therefore, that they may receive a particularly hospitable welcome, They will in many eases require assistance and advice while in training or on furlough, or when wounded and in hospital, and it will be necessary to make special provision for their accommodation during convalescence after discharge from hospital. The contingents from other parts of the Empire are already provided for in these respects, and arrangements should certainly be made for our soldiers from the British West ladies also.
To enable the Committee efficiently to carry out their purpose it will be necessary to secure at once a considerable sum of money, which, it is hoped, may ho speedily forthcoming. Donations, which will be gratefully acknowledged, may he sent to the Hon. Treasurers of the West Indian Contingent Fund, 16 Seething Lane, London, B.C., cheques being croseed "The Union el London and Smiths Bank."—We are, Sir, &e., EVERARD IN THORN, Chairman ; HARWOOD; GLEN- CONNER ; E. W. D. Warm; C. P. LUCAS; J. HAYES SADLER ; W. GREY WILSON ; PRANCES FLEXING; OWEN PHILIPPS; SYDNEY OLIVIER ; B. RUTHERPOIID; IRTPPON; ALGERNON E. ASPINALL, HOD. Seeeetary.
15 Seething Lane, B.C.
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