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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1789, 14 February 1918, Page 1 (Supplement)

What the CHURCH ARMY DOES. FOR THE FIGHTING MAN CHURCH ARMY HUTS Give a Hearty Welcome to All. 4* I 1. They are under the management of trained men who are in most cases voluntary workers. 2. They are used by the Chaplains of all denominations, by Medical Officers as advanced dressing stations, by Military Instructors for lecture theatres. 3. In many of them there is a Cinema Show every night, or a Concert or something of the sort to banish for a while the everhaunting thought of war. 4. At the C.A. Canteens hot coffee, etc., and biscuits can be had, generally free; and the boys can buy comforts at the prices fixed by the Military authorities. 5. All huts or tents at the front have to be put just where the Military authorities direct. Over 200 of ours have the honour of being under shell-fire. 6. Where circumstances will not allow tents to be erected the Church Army officers establish themselves in dug-outs, in shattered houses or barns, in vaults, or anywhere else, so as to be as near the boys as possible. 7. Our 50 Church Army motor ambulances were the first in the field. 8. Church Army kitchen cars save thousands of men from exhaustion, serving them free with hot drinks and Oxo just when they need them most, in the very trenches or as they return wounded from battle. 9. Church Army Huts are a Home from Home. They provide recreation, newspapers and magazines, stationery, music, warmth in winter and shade in summer, and always a hearty welcome to all. 10. Church Army Huts are übiquitous. In the Garden of Eden (Mesopotamia), there are C.A. Huts, as well as in the Hell of the foremost battle fronts. There are C.A. Huts in the Holy Land, in East Africa, on the burning sands of Egypt; others provide a home for sailors in the frozen lonely bases of the Fleet where none but sailors may enter, in prison vaults in Belgium, in Thessalonica on the very spot where St. Paul preached to the Thessalonians. By the gracious consent of His Majesty, King George, the Royal Mews in London now contains 100 Church Army beds. A once notorious public house in Malta is now a Church Army Club for convalescents.