This journal is in receipt of the report of the British Forces Recreation Centres Fund for the year ending March 31, 1938, and most interesting reading it is. The accounts show^Tieipts total ing $15,024.10, with expenditure amounting to $14,144.40, leaving a balance in hand of $1,779.70. Included in the expenditure is a donation of $3,600 to the British Forces Y.M.C.A. whose w runs parallel with that of the Fund. The reports of both the Fund and the British Forces Y.M.C.A. make interesting reading and indicate that very real service is being rendered the men on what is a lamentably small income for the work which has to be done. Donations during the year amounted to no more than $11,285, and the report states that at times the balance of the Fund was almost at ya g point. The review of the list of contributors show that the ber was 43, one" of whom gave in kind, and it is suggested that while in the main they all gave substantial sums, and are composed chiefly of firms in Shanghai, the Fund is not receiving that individual support which work such as this should receive. The amount of work that was done amongst and for the men during the time they were mere active than now justifies the belief that Shanghai would be more responsive in this regard did it know of all that is being done; to endeavour to cover it in so small a space as is available here would not be successful, but, perhaps, some indication of the conditions under which the men were serving, and the manner in which they were tended to may be inferred from the following delightful story in the report of the British Fortes Y.M.C.A..—
North g guard Chinese defending and the Japanese attacking It became even less pleasant when aerial bombings grew. daily more intense. For those resting in their West Honskew billets from these clu!
nal talkies and other programmes w anged. After a musical hour on a a evening held in an unheated mess room, Q cold night, at the completion of a late meal, called for their favourite hymn: so much like, on occasions, to ch sing. A lady with a violin provided the paniment. At the close there were ma pressions of appreciation by the men. One young soldier remarked that he would return fo the trying! duties at Windy Corner with a bri courage after the inspiration of that hour.
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