Local members of the Navy League who subscribe to the Central British War Fund will at the same time do their bit for the Navy. Members desirous of subscribing direct to King George's Fund for Sailors may send remittances to Mr. E. S. Wilkinson, the Hon. Secretary of the League, Shanghai branch. The Central British War Fund remits to the Navy League for the purchase of comforts for British sailors. The watchword of the Royal Navy since the war began has been to "watch and ward".
After the war began the committee of the League decided that it would for be good policy to ask members for donations since they had already been assured that the Central British War Fund would devote special attention to the requirements of the Navy; in their opinion to duplicate requests for such a purpose is only giving generous subscribers additional trouble, and it was thought that it would be more satisfactory to attend to all such matters through a single channel.
The justification of the policy has been apparent from the latest League report (R.N. Comforts Supply organization) showing that the Central British War Fund here is the second largest donor to the Navy Comforts Supply with a total up to the end of December last, of £7.913 while the Canadian Red Cross heads the list with a total of £13,422.
The vast number of men to be supplied now with comforts covers not only all regular ships of the Royal Navy, but every imaginable type of craft' brought into special service, such as mine-sweepers, coast patrols, ete, and there is real need for every help to give these men at least some little comfort in the course of their arduous duties.
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