LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 882, 7 December 1916, Page 6

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

j Y.M.C.A. TRENCH COMPORTS. [ To the Editor of THE SUN. Sir, —Despite the multitude of calls : that are being made upon the purses j of the public at the present time for patriotic and other worthy objects, the urgency of the call of our New ; Zealand Y.M.C.A. commissioners at present in England for money whereiwith to purchase comforts for our < bows in the trenches, brooks no dei lay. Would you permit me, therefore, ! through the medium of your esteem- ' ed columns, to urge the claims of the Association's Trench Comfort Fund upon the readers of your paper. The commissioners are asking for i£10()0 per month to enable them to I distribute comforts with regularity j one or twice a week to all New ' Zealanders in the line and at the base camps and hospitals. A special effort is being made this iweek to get a larger sum than usual ! for Christmas gift parcels. At this j season we are in the habit of spending somewhat extra upon ourselves land our friends, and as we owe all jwe have and enjoy very largely to the men at the front, it is our privii lege to see that they share in the I extra good things also. Every penny donated this week I will be cabled Home, and will be j distributed in the form of comforts j (chocolates, milk, cake, soups, cigar-, j ettcs, tobacco, etc.) before Christmas. ! The goods are bought at lowest cost ; in England or France at the nearest I point to the distributing base, and thus are received in good condition. I All donations will be acknowledg--1 ed through the Press. Thanking you in anticipation for ! vour courtesy,—l am, etc., 1 ' WILL J. MASON, General Secretary, Christchurch ; Y.M.C.A. ' j ALLIES* FIRM COMPACT. ' | Terrible as France's sufferings have been in the past, and terrible I as they may be in the future, there is ino partner in the Entente that has 1 displayed a more resolute determination to see the war through to a safe '; conclusion at any cost. Every at--1 itempt made by Germany to sow seeds :of distrust between Fiance and England or France and any of the allies ■ : has evoked only a fresh manifestation of that feeling. Germany would .not succeed in sneaking a dishonest • I peace in that way even though the alternative were, as Hindenburg I'threatens, a continuance of the war ■ j for 30 years.—"Daily Telegraph"' -(Sydney).