The Ypres Times.
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YPRES ABBEY MEMORIAL FUND.
A determined effort is being made by the mem
bers of a strong committee to raise sufficient funds
for those heroic Nuns of Ypres who held their
own in the town until ordered to evacuate. Down
to the time they were driven on the road tc
Poperinghe, and after most of the civil population
had fled, they rendered every assistance possible in
providing food and shelter for our troops, receiving
and nursing the wounded in the Convent.
Now the Nuns of Ypres are penniless and in
imminent danger of being homeless. They have
been fortunate in obtaining possession of Ypres
Abbey, Kylemore, Connemara, but although in
possession, they are without funds to pay off the
Bank Loan of ^36,000 with which the purchase
■was paid for, and are faced with the prospects of
payments which the annual interest and instal
ments of Bank Loan involve.
I have been asked to draw attention to the
opportunity of taking a share in the debt we owe
■them by contributing to the fund. An impressive
■souvenir will be sent to each benefactor contri
buting 1
Some of the most active members of the Council
-are
Field-Marshal The Earl of Ypres,
G.C.V.O., K.C.M.G.
T. P. O'Connor, Esq., M.P.
Mrs. James Conchie.
Lady Irene Curzon.
R. D. Hegarty, Esq.
All payments should be sent to Rt. Hon. Vis
count Fitzalan of Derwent, G.C.V.O., D.S.O., 72,
Victoria Street.
CEMETERIES MAP.
The demand for the map of the Salient ceme
teries has been so great that the April issue of the
Ypres Times, with map enclosed, is practically sold
out. A limited number of maps, with accompany
ing list of cemeteries, can still, however, be ob
tained at the small charge of 1/- to defray the
rather heavy expense incurred.
BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION.
The British Empire Exhibition next year will
afford an opportunity for a great re-union of Ypres
League members. The Belgium Sub-Committee is
taking steps which will bring the League into
intimate connection with that portion of the Ex
hibition which deals with Ypres matters. But
more of this in the October journal, which will be
a most important publication, and considerable
space will be given to what our women did in
the war.
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THE PILGRIMAGE CENTRE AT YPRES.
1 have pleasure in being able to report that the
scheme for a hostel at Ypres will, in a few weeks,
take tangible shape, if, at the same time, this is
of a temporary character only.
It was felt desirable to co-operate immediately
with St. Barnabas Hostels and our representatives
at Ypres, the brothers Parminter, and to secure
the use of rooms which the latter have leased, one
of which will be a rest room two or three bed
rooms also will be available. A sub-committee with
representatives from Ypres League and St. Bar
nabas has been appointed, and on completion of
the building the rooms will be furnished and our
members visiting Ypres will have a quiet retreat
with sympathetic attention to all their require
ments. This modest centre may form the nucleus
of that more permanent building visualised by the
founders of the League under the title of A
Hostel at Ypres."
General the Earl of Cavan, K.P., G.C.M.G.
G.C.V.O.. Chief of the Imperial General Staff,
represented the British Army on June 3rd at the
unveiling by Marshal Foch of the War Memotial
at Abbeville, raised to the memory of Frenth
soldiers who laid down their lives in the Great
War. No fewer than 2.000 British dead lie
buried in the cemetery at Abbeville.
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They paved the way for us, on the Great Road,
To the freedom of the world,
Which now is ours, bought at a costly price,
By the gold of Life,
Coined and stamped with suffering and with Death,
In the Red Mint of Ypres.
(Signed) Campbell of Saddell (F.S.A., Scotland).