"MAIL" TOBACCO FUND

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLVIII, 17 December 1914, Page 4

"MAIL" TOBACCO FUND

EVERY 6d. WILL GLADDEN THE HEART OF A HERO. He will Remember You, because your " ' Name will be Written on Every Pared '• You Pay For. 3o Cigarettes. 2 Oz. Tobacco. ;, , THIS is what you can present to a 1 gallant. British soldier or, sailor by „. contributing , Sixpence to tbe'"B,V6ning •<' <• Mail" Cigarette' and; Tobacco. 'Fund:- ,'. This popular scheine.ior -suuplyin^'oin'.' .' _ defenders with free smoking material is- '■• meeting with the appreciation it both here and at the front. ' *'< , ! •'. . '■■ A pleasing feature of the- sch.omei is (that it places g|*& arid,.-those ~ receive into comniuriicatibn withiOi.io.' ■-> another. The name and address of the donor is attached to the\pack*ti?so that Tommy Atkins knows exactly who has befriended him. And he does not foi v : . ... get; ho sends his thanks; Notes of ap- ' ' preciation.,are being. received every day by English donors—notes written amid the roaring of big guns, tho screeching , of shells, the z-zip-?ip-ing of leaden messimgers of death.' ' v ■ ■■■•'*.' Our. soldiers arc giving their;live?, ;,.yoil . are asked to give ■ themV Wniethlng:,' to ' smoke. It' isn'tiiiucli td;\\>U'> ,'b.ur itris '-■ ".- a great deal to Tommy Atkins, without tobacco or'"fags" v 6n H*°, battlofield. This st-nd:ng-out ofr smoking, Material is a solemn duty. ; The empty pipe is bad enough anywhere, as every smoker knows, but at the front it is, ..a tragedy. . Our soldiers are inveterate smokers. They love the weed as they, love t<hcir country." We hear df wounded, men begging, for. a. cifijarotto 1 Ayhen; plabcd - on • the operating tabic". > Wo hear, of fa ■soiu ' lary "ing'l or pipe being roxinol ' among a dozen soldiers. Wo read about Tommy smoking'.tea leaves. ' '■:■' :■'; •'<'.".> •/■ '." The - French people ' have been very generous to Tommy; Atkins in ; regard, to v 'smokes," but "Tommy Atkins dislikes their cigarettes. 'He says tliey have i) 6 "bite", in theni. ' He longs for a British smoke. ; .. -' , ' '"'■ •""".." •.-. '■' ■''.'.'' ''.•'■= , '' i. ■ r We ask you to help us to see that ho gets it by. sending just as many sixpences as you"ca'n. ' ' : : ' * ' '.■■'•"•' • The' destination of your .parcel* is left . entirely ,to yourself. ', :\"'- u ' ..;/;•;■ ' They can bp s«int to any regim«ht the Front, to any' battleship, or they can be addressed to any individual soldier or sailor. '.'':':.,'.''. ' .'•.' ~. '■'•.'"■ ■' ' '