LEAGUE SECRETARY'S NOTES. EMPIRE TEA ROOM, PHILLIPS' HOTEL RESTAURANT The Ypres Times. 163 to our new members. Every addition to our numbers is a source of satisfaction, and I extend the sincerest welcome to those who have joined us during the last quarter. 4 I am going to plunge in medias res, as space will not permit of any preamble. Members have been coming in lately not in battalions, but single file, and it is to members themselves that I now appeal to take a more active part in the work of recruiting. No edifice can be erected without hands, and we need more builders than are at present forthcom ing if we are to put the coping-stone on the monument begun. It is often pleaded that times are hard, trade depressed, and that many are living on the narrow margins of life. These facts are indisputable. But do not allow difficulties to paralyse effort, to engender an insidious apathy which becomes in the end the parent of indiffer ence. If we have faith in our ideals it is possible to remove mountains. Energy and a spirit un daunted by rebuffs and initial discouragement will clear the path of all obstacles. Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak." Members are apt to think that they have discharged their obligations by the payment of a subscription, or the giving of a donation. But we ask of them that little more and how much it is! their close co-operation in our propaganda work. They can give no better proof of sympathy with the commemorative object of the League than by helping to increase its numbers, and in so doing keep green the memory of those gallant souls who fought and fell at Ypres. I shall remember while the light is yet, And in the night-time I will not forget." embroidered badges. It has been proposed that the badge of the League should be issued embroidered on cloth, suitable for wearing on blazers or displaying as an ornament. These could be supplied at four shillings each, or even less, if only there is a sufficient demand to justify the committee in ordering a large quantity. Will members, there fore, who would be ready to buy such a badge were it issued, send a post card to the Secretary to apprise him of the fact. If sufficient are received we shall get the badges made. shields of honour. As members are aware, designs for shields commemorating individual war services can be obtained through the League for 3s., and can be reproduced in enamel on metal shields mounted on ebony, for a guinea. It is now possible, as an alternative, to have them engrossed on vellum for the same pricea guinea. These would be suitable either for framing or for placing in an album. The colours reproduce better on vellum than they do on metal. 6, RUE de STEERS, next Church of St. Nicholas just being rebuilt halfway between Station the Grand Place. Also BED AND BREAKFAST. English Proprietor MEMBER of YPRES LEAGUE. photographs, maps and panoramas. Many people wish that they had kept their old trench maps, and enquire whether it is still possible to get them. They are no longer printed, but photographs can be obtained, which in 12 in. by 15 in. size show all the detail with great clearness. When ordering give the place, the scale and the date of the map that you require. The price is exactly the same as that of the other photographs that we catalogue. On another page in this number will be found a reproduction of a fine panorama of Hill 60. Many of us remember the panoram as that adorned our O.P.'s in France and Belgium. These can now mostly be obtained from the Imperial War Museum through the League. They vary in size. The one of Hill 60 consists of four photographs. Our repro duction covers a little more than the two middle ones. travel. Our travel arrangements are much as last year. At present we regret to say that it does not look as though there would be demand enough to justify our attempting to organise a large one-day pilgrimage. We are, however, ready to take a conducted pilgrimage over at Whitsuntide, May Rue Courte de Thourout, Grande Place, YPRES. 30 Frs. per Day. English Throughout. Manageress Tel.264 Ypres. Mrs. Phillips.

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