APPEAL FOR FIELD GLASSES.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15812, 30 January 1917, Page 9

APPEAL FOR FIELD GLASSES.

■ — • . A GENEROUS EESPOXSE. - • (nou 'otra own* correspondent. J_ LONDON, December 19. Oao of the latest acts of Lord obcrts was to make a world-wide apPe»l for field glasses, for tho use of 2r"vXr» front. In two years over these have been received, l.noufc reckoning those which were Australia > the Malay ill ■ t £":' a ° d °^ c r distant countries, and iwued in due course to local on the different fronts. The M *» ter ' ce ived have comprised havts been classified and S Bc f» rdin S to the needs of dif■■'JD'ts. and Lady Roberts, daugh"Pivi- i J ato Field Marshal, writes: W s eful have been the fine Pj«iaatic glasses sent, which have been unit artillery and machine-gun n S to their power; large for batteries; deertclescopes for gunners and .2°°d old-fashioned nonracing glasses for detection na t ,on !jl>ty of aircraft, locating ,m S by disc, collecting 'to-; j' i mus ketry instruction. 1 rtd ndeed , grateful for tho war in father's appeal has been met. neople all over the world have unfa? r 5? res t-> re?ognising that, in the fact that their glasses are , V sat the organisation for ckan- I'l 11 " Hs been arranged, the or loss are many, and tnat they SWfci a r VC £. glasses back. leiW f think of tho enormous numor good glasses sent it mar seerV to ask for more, but the destill gr e at. Every good glass / °° era -^ asie6 >, and every tele£2? Except toys) is wanted for the ; of the country. Tho address to glasses should be sent is: Lady 3 Glass Fund, National S^ aC| "" c^or ' a street,