EMPIRE WAR GIFTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 21, 24 July 1940, Page 10

EMPIRE WAR GIFTS

MORE GENEROUS SUMS

{British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, July 22,

Among many generous gifts recently received-from all quarters of the British Empire for the promotion of the war effprt is a silver cigarette box which was handed today by the Governor of Mauritius, Sir Bede Clifford, to the Prime Minister. It was presented to the wardroom of H.M.S. Mauritius" by the people of the colony. The box contained two cheques, one of £11,000 for the purchase of a seaplane for ft*e ship, and the other of £150,000 subscribed by the colony as a war gift to Britain. : ■

• In: making the presentation, Sir Bede Clifford said that a good part of the money subscribed was the gift of people of French descent who were unshaken in their loyalty to the Allied cause and in their faith in its ultimate triumph.

The Maharajah of Gondal has given Britain one lakh of rupees (£7500), to be devoted to helping evacuated children. Of this £1000 will be devoted to meeting, the needs of children evacuated from the Channel Islands, while "the remainder will be used to meet the needs of children from other areas.

A sum of £7500 has also been contributed by the people of Sind, India, to purchase a fighter aircraft for the R.A.F. A further sum of £1250 has been collected by the Cyprus "Post," from its readers, for the Cyprus fighter plane fund, and a second instalment of £10,000 has been received from the Kenya Central War Fund.