The W.C.T.U. of Japan and the War.

White Ribbon, Volume 10, Issue 118, 15 March 1905, Page 6

The W.C.T.U. of Japan and the War.

The Union Signal for Dec. 29 contains an interesting account of the Japan \Y. C. T. U. department of work for soldiers. Mrs Fuki Shimidzu is the National Superintendent, and her hands and those of her coadjutors are now tully occupied in sending “comfort bags” to the soldiers at the front. Six hundred of these bags were at first made as an experiment, and were sent to men in the navy, as the War Department at that time refused to accent them for the army. A little later, however, when the worth of the bags had been proved by the naval men, word was received that the War Department would receive them tor the soldiers and

would furnish free transportation. The work then began in earnest. About six hundred bags a day are turned over to the men who do the packing; and the Department has issued orders that only the bags sent by the W C.T.U. are to be received. It is needless to say that among the “comforts" placed in each bag is a supply of literature.