A Year of War

Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 November 1915, Page 3

A Year of War

WORK OF "THE CHURCH ARMY." From the Rev H. T. Stealey, The Chronicle is in receipt of the Anglican Church Army Review, the August number of which summarises the years work of tho Church Army in the war field. It shows how the army established a. war hospital at Caen early iu the war. The hospital now is cs-tablish-xl as part of the' French Redl Cross, and is ministering to great numbers of the wounded of tho Allied forces. The most extensive and perhaps the most useful of the Church Army's war work branches is that which carries en recreation huts and touts for British troops at liomo and abroad. There are now over sixty of tlie.se ;'l work, including three in i'Yiuico. thire in Malta and two in Egypt. Huts ot Silence—or camp church it,|ouis—are established tfidtely; recreation rooms for soldiers' and sailors' wives; fifty ambulance cars; and-a kitchen car at the front. A new 'branch lias been established -for sending parcels for soldiers at the front in Franco, and a number of labour homos and women'? homes have been found to be admirably adaptodi ior receiving ruFngee.s. both British and Belgian. A note in tho Review states that "although the outcry about, 'war babies' lias proved to be unfounded, there have been enough sad cases coming under oui notice to make it imperative to open ono of our ■women's homes as a small maternity home." Many thousand* of pocket testaments have been distributed to the troops. Munitions canteens, wherein nou-alcc'liolic hoverages are sold, have been opened in proximitv to largo factories whore Hit , manufacture <vf warlike stores is being: carried on. Although scores of va'.ued evangelists (ns well as clerks at headquarters) have enlisted, the army hitlioi-to has been able to find men ana women sufficient to run all its activities, and friends have generously sen - , funds sufficient for all requirements to the present time.