The Ypres Times. 243 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. r* 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. "lïSf ilic 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).

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