"RED JERSEY" APPEAL

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 157, 22 March 1918, Page 3

"RED JERSEY" APPEAL

FUNDS FOR THE SOLDIERS WORK OF THE' SALVATION ARMY A meeting called in connection with the appeal made by the Salvation Army for funds for its work among the w>ldiers at the front jind hi England va' held" in the Chamber of Commerce on ■Wednesday evening. Mr. W. K Fuller presided. Adjutant A. K Hosking said the committee had been successful in securing the services of two capable ivritcrs-to get out a pamphlet covering the very wide range of the Salvatoii Army operations. '.This booklet would be especially valuable because the Salvation Army had no publicity department. Assistance in (printing and distributing the booklet had been promised by several firms in the city. A number of novel suggestions in connection with the raising of funds were indicated ■by Adjutant Hoskmg, including a triumphal arch. It was intended to hold a 'rally" in the Town Hall on March 27, and there would be a general Thanksgiving Day celebration at New town Rark at Easter. Alludinc to the Salvation Army war work, ho stated that it had been arranged, in view 1 of the coming offensive, to send a hundred additional Salvation Army officers to the Western front- also to erect fifty more huts of a new and enlarged design. The New Zealand Salvation Army, he added was sending five additional ambulance cars to the Western front. Iu the course of further, explanation of tho work of the Salvation 'Army among the soldiers, Adjutant iHosiwig said that soldiers themselves had been most eulogistic in their acknowledgment- of the assistance and comfort they had received through the Army. '"•In England," he said, "we were the 'first to erect a hostel for the benefit of soldiers. Large, institutions that were used in pre-war times for the benefit of the poorer classes at Home have now been turned to good use for the benefit of our soldiers. Tor instance, the Westminster Hotel tor Working Men, and a poor men s shelter 1 has been emptied bf its occupants' —many of whom have won distinction on the battlefield. This hostel is now beinc used as a. hostel for so diers,, accommodating 650. This building cost tho Salvation Army £50,000. Thus we saved the public in-war time that large contribution. ' Near to railway stations ■ throughout the United Kingdom the Salvation Army has its rooms, and its Army and Navy homes, which aro at the disposal of the men. Hutments in all military camps and institutes'for the benefit.of the soldiers have, been erected throughout treat Britain. , . . . , "In France, whore the major part of the work is being iccomplished, from the base' of the British Expeditionary Force and up to the ]'»epthe. Salvation Army has a network pf hutments, hostels, and institutes for the? accommodation of our fighting men._ "Another, very important branch in the way of. assisting the wounded is an Ambulance Corps, with GO cars. Sir Arthur Stanley, in files just to hand declares that these are easily the'best kept and fitted cars on she Western front. He adds that tho more Salvationists we can send him the bettor he will he pleased. . These cars are manned hy Salvation Army officers and are driven by Salvationists, "The Army also has a number o| its own nurses, and Boores of trained women officers'at work on the Western front, systematically visiting the military hospitals, attending to the wounded and sick in every way possible, writin" letters home to loved ones for those unable to write; and in every way supplying that tender touch so much appreciated by tho suffering and the helpless." • The meeting on Wednesday evening appointed additional members to committees and discussed preliminary arrangements for the appeal to the Wellington public