AID FOR The empire.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15685, 12 August 1914, Page 8

AID FOR The empire.

PRINCE'S FUND £500,000.

UNIVERSAL PATRIOTISM.

WORKERS AND VOLUNTEERS

EXCELLENT CLASS ENLISTING

Received August 11, 8.20 p.m.) London, August 10. The Prince of Wales's relief fund has reached £500,000.

The Duke of Westminster has contributed £15,000, Sir James Caird £12,000, Lady Strathcona, the Eastern Telegraph Company, and six others £5000 each.

Lady Sarah Wilson is appealing for funds for base hospitals on the Continent to avoid a sea passage for men who have been severely

wounded.

The Duchess of Westminster made a similar appeal, and has been given guarantees of £400 a month.

Sir Robert Lucas-Tooth has subscribed £10,000 to the Countess of Dudley's fund, of which he is acting as chairman.

The Crystal Palace at Sydenham has been offered to the War Office for use as a temporary hospital.

Earls Spencer and Stradbroke and others are offering houses and Scottish castles as hospitals.

All classes are responding to. the call for enrolment as special constables.

In London 3000 are enlisting daily in the expeditionary force.

It is expected that the 100,000 men appealed for by Earl Kitchener for the second army •will be obtained much sooner than was anticipated.

The percentage of unfit has fallen from 30 to well under 20 per cent, owing to the excellent class of men enlisting.

Shipbuilders and repairers at Newcastle have arranged to transfer their men from merchant to naval work. Those on the Tyne are prepared to undertake any repairs in emergency. Africanders and Ulstermen. Africanders at Aliwal North have cabled to the British Government, "We can be depended on to defend the Union Jack to the last cartridge."

At a meeting held in Belfast, Captain Craig announced that 100,000 Ulster volunteers "would offer their services to the Government. •<

The Welsh miners have decided to assist the Government to their utmost.

Actors as Special Police.,

West End actors arc offering to act as spocial police. They say they would prefer duty from midnight until four in the morning.

The Army Council announces that if the war lasts under three years, the men enlisted in the regular army will be discharged with all speed. Boy Scouts Bender ServiceThe Boy Scout force is doing useful work, including the guarding of cables. Sea Scouts are assisting the coastguards. Eight thousand London Boy Scouts, of whom half are cyclists, have volunteered for local service, and already 2500 have been by the Post Office and other public departments, and Red Cross and other societies.

Scouts equipped with blankets and rations left the city in batches of 80 to scout in outlying districts.