The number of boys attending school has increased to 500 and hundreds of more applications have been received, but were put aside quina so lack of accommodation. As the building has to be reconstructed atd equipped to meet the requirements of even the simplest school the fathers decided to make an appeal to the public for funds in. their worthy cause.
One of the fathers yesterday stated that they were living on voluntary contributions which, owing to the war, had dwindled to almost nothing. Money used to go into the school coffers from England, France, Holland and Belgium. The work of the fathers, ít was learned, would go for naught if public support was not forthcoming. father when questioned by a representative of the "North-China Daily News" modest'v refrained from discussing the difficult and unsanitary conditions under which they have been living. People desirous of visiting the school will be welcomed to do so, he said. Cheques and contributions should be forwarded and addressed to Rev. P. Lappin, the treasurer of the school.
That mend that never was quite invisible is a reminder of the return of the ragged legions from Dunkirk. And it is camouflaged with stains of mud and grease each of which is a souvenir of some undignified flop in the gutter during the Battle of Britain.
For I am what is called "the new kind of War Correspondent" The traditional kind still has to have his uniform—peaked cap. affeer's tunic, natty breeches and burnished riding boots—before he can go off with a British Expeditionary Force to some romantic battle-front. The "new kind." if he is wise, also has his uniform—his oldest suit in which, when he hears the whistle of a bomb, he can fling himself into the mud in some unromantic back-street.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.