12—One hundred and fifty cadets of the New York Military Academy here will sleep on the ground during their annual encampment in order that 150 British boys and girls may have cots in their air-raid shelters, The cots, donated to Bundles for Britain, Inc, by the cadets, were piled on Army trucks at the academy today and transported to that. organization's warehouse at 112 West Eighty-ninth Street, New York. With them went fifty bundles of suits, shoes and underclothes, likewise' donated by the corps of cadets.
Yesterday morning there was al all-out inspection at the academy. When the formation had been dismissed the boys went to their barracks and—earrying out a plan that school officers said was wholly their own idea-toted their cots to the parade ground, The cots and the other gifts were blessed by the school chaplain, Captain John Francis Hagen, before they were loaded on the trucks thie morning, With a cadet guard, and escorted by details of New York State and New Jersey police, the cots were taken to the warehouse, where two officials of Bundles for Britain—Mrs, Paul White and Miss Ann Emmet—received them, A spokesman for Bundles for Britain said that the cadets gifts would be immediately sorted and packed for inclusion in the next shipment to England, With the gifts will go 200 letters written by cadets to the British children—whose names are, of course, unknown, but who eventually will receive the cots and clothes, The letters will be distributed by Mrs, Edward R. Murrow, London representative of the organization.
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