LEAGUE SECRETARY'S NOTES.
44 TAIL UP."
Rue Courte de Thourout.
The Ypres Times.
127
TO OUR NEW MEMBERS.
Mine is the two-fold pleasure of bidding you
welcome as members of our Association, and of
wishing you a very happy New Year.
Following traditional habit most of you will be
making resolutions for the year now unfolding.
Many of these resolutions will be lost in Lethe's
river," but some will survive. Among them I
hope may be numbered the resolve (which I doubt
not will be included in your category) to discharge
earnestly the responsibility admission to fellow
ship of the League entails. Remember you are
the League. Without you its existence would be
ephemeral as the life of the may-fly. Your help
is essential to keep vividly alive the memory, not
only of those two hundred thousand warriors
who sleep in the Salient, but all that is symbolised
by the nameYpres. Space does not allow me to
dilate on a subject pregnant with interest and the
glory of heroism. Sir Harry Perry Robinson, in
his eloquent broadcast speech, which we are
privileged to print in the columns of our present
number, will revive your pride in the deeds
wrought by the men of your own race during that
epic struggle whose theatre was set in the mud
fields of Flanders. Deeds which have justly
entitled them to a niche in the temple of Fame
How grandly glow the bays
Purpureally enwound
With those rich thorns, the brows
How infinitely crowned
That now thro' Death's dark house
Have passed with royal gaze
We owe it to their transcendant qualities that
to-day we can still exclaim England, my Eng
landEngland my own! To our motto, Lest
we Forget," let us add the pendent May the
League Flourish." I appeal to you to do your
share to acheve an ambition worthy of support.
PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE SALIENT
Members will be glad to hear that the prices of
photographs from the Imperial War Museum have
been reduced to is. 6d. and 4s. Other sizes and
prices can be had on application. Members are
reminded that these photographs are Crown copy
right.
WREATHS FOR ORAVES.
We would remind our readers that we can
arrange to have a cornflower wreath placed on
any grave in Belgium for eight shillings, provided
no particular date is specified. If, however, the
wreath must be placed on a specific date, then it is
always possible that the cost of a car may have
to be added, though Captain Parminter, who
carries out this sendee, always does his best to
keep such charges low by using cars that happen
to be going in the required direction. When no
date is specified, this charge is avoided by waiting
to lay the wreath till someone happens to be going
to the cemetery in which the grave is situated.
Hard times there have been,
Hard times there will be,
Just you keep your tail up,
Said Bomer Bill to me,
Though you and I have seen a lot
Up old Wipers way.
Though most folks have good times
And dance till break of day,
We have had our own thrills
Up old Wipers war-.
Hotel Restaurant PHILLIPS
YPRES.
Just off the Grand Place, past Bank of Courtrai
on the left.
TERMS30 Francs per day for Modern
Dinner, Bed, Breakfast and Bathroom.
Luncheon. Te!. 264.
Moderate Terms. Manageress Mrs. Phillips.
Just you keep your tail up,
Though times are looking blue.
Pull yourself togethermate
We will see them through.
Campbell of Saddell,
F.S.A. (Scot.), J.P.
