The letter which we publish today is but a public expression of ones that the British Women's Work have received from Weihaiwei, acknowledging the receipt of the first lot of garments ete., sent up on October 4.
The base Commandant writes "T received yesterday your letter enclosing Bill of Lading for 110,000 cigarettes presented by the British American Tobacco Company to the British Women's Work for the use of the troops at Tsingtao or in Bos pital here. I will sce that they are distributed, also any warm under clothing you send up.
"These gifts are appreciated by the troops more than I can tell you."
The President of the Ladies Help Committee (Mrs. Cavendish) writes:—'The Ladies Help Committee and the Fleet Surgeon are most deeply grateful for what the ladies of Shanghai are doing for the base Hospital at Weihaiwei and for the troops and sailors in Tsingtao. T have read the letters in the North China Daily News" with the greatest interest and am most truly glad that the British Women's Work has been inaugurated; unit-led effort is so much more satisfactory than individual effort. I wrote another letter this morning sug: gesting that, till we know the result of Tsingtao it would by advis able not to send any garments England, for, if the struggle is protracted, the troops at present up there will certainly require many warm garments before they
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