MEMORIAL, Sir,—It will be recalled that at the meeting of Britons held in the Gordon Hall on the Ist instant, it was unanimously decided to perpetuate the memory of those who fell in the Great War by the erect tion of a Cenotaph. The sense of the same meeting favoured strongly a further and substantial effort in the direction of marking in a suitable manner the Allied Victory. A Committee was accordingly appointed to go into the matter and present proposals for consideration a subsequent meeting.
The Committee have now deliberated and have unanimously decided to recommend the establishment of a Trust of which the primary aims would be to augment, where necessary, the resources of (a) The wives and children, the latter especially for the matter of education and start in life, and other dependents of Britons who went home from Tientsin to serve and who are numbered among the fallen (b) Britons who went' home from Tientsin to serve and as a result of the War are permanently or temporarily disabled.
No doubt there would be' subsidiary aims and necessarily certain reversionary trusts, into which it is not necessary to enter here.
Whether funds will admit of anything being done beyond the establishment of such a Trust, supposing the proposal to be adopted by the British Community, depends on the extent to which calls may be expected to be made upon it. It is therefore, desirable for the Committee to be in a position to form general idea of the amount that would be required. The possession of such information would also put them in the more satisfactory position of being able to lay before the community a reasonably definite objective.
In these circumstances the Committee venture to ask you to invoke the assistance of your readers. Many of them will doubtless be friends of Tientsin men who have fallen or are labouring under disability from wounds. It is to be expected that some knowledge is held by such, of the _privato circumstances of their friends coming within the orbit of the suggested trust. All such information as could be placed at the disposal of the Committee would be of the greatest assistance. and the Committee hope that it will be communicated fully and freely. It need not be added that it will be treated in every case in the most profound confidence.
We are etc., Percy. H. B. Kent, Chairman.
H. F. Hanprey-Derry, C. R. Merrie, E. C. Perers, W. Woopaean, Hon. See.
Tientsin British War Memorial Committee.
Tientsin, March 23.
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