LEAGUE SECRETARY'S NOTES.
16
The Ypres Times.
TO OUR NEW MEMBERS.
We cordially welcome all who have joined the
League since the publication of our last issue of
The Ypres Times, and we want you to realise
how much we depend on your good services to
make the objects of the League more widely
known. Great endeavours are being made, not
only to keep up the existing membership, on which
the life of the League depends, but to increase
our numbers, and we are confident that your help
is at hand. Remember that the League stands
to commemorate the 250,000 officers and men who
died in the Immortal Defence of Ypres. So during
the coming year approach your relatives and
friends who served in the Salient, and those who
are in sympathy with our objects. Write to head
quarters for membership forms, and enrol all
whom you can. We wish you every success in the
efforts which we are sure you are about to give
to your League.
position of Chairman of the London County
Committee. There is no doubt but that a large
measure of the "success of this Committee has been
due to his untiring efforts on their behalf. Major
E. Montague Jones, O.B.E., has accepted the
vacant chairmanship, and, needless to say, he
will have the full support of all London members.
SOLUTION OF MILITARY CROSS-WORD
PUZZLE.
TO CORRESPONDING MEMBERS.
During the past year Corresponding Members
have, I feel sure, read with great enjoyment the
monthly letters addressed to them by the League's
one-time Secretary, Colonel G. T. Brierley (mem
ber of the Executive Committee). The aim of
these letters was to bring into closer contact
headquarters and its auxiliary forces which, as a
glance at the list of Corresponding Members shows,
are scattered far and wide throughout the British
Empire. Owing to the increasing pressure of his
official duties Colonel Brierley is reluctantly
obliged to discontinue a correspondence from which
he himself has derived no little pleasure, and which
he hopes has done something to strengthen and
cement the good relations existing between head
quarters and its various branches. I think all
Corresponding Members will join with me in a
very hearty vote of thanks to Colonel Brierley
for the time and thought he has so ungrudgingly
devoted to the interests of the League in the last
twelve months. His work has not been limited to
the writing of monthly letters only. He has also
produced a lecture, issued in two parts, on the
League and the Four Battles of Ypres, for the
use of Corresponding Members in particular, and
for others who desire to keep before the public
mind one of the most glorious epics of any age.
I regret that with my very small staff I shall be
unable to manage more than a quarterly letter to
Corresponding Members, which will appear in the
columns of each issue of pur paper. In the
interval I shall be very pleased to receive any
letters that they may write to me.
I ask you to accept every good wish for the
New Year, and I trust that our united efforts may
make it a prosperous one for the League.
EMBROIDERED BADGES.
In the last April number of The Ypres Times,
it was proposed that the badge of the League
should be issued embroidered on cloth suitable
for wearing on blazers, or displaying as an
ornament.
We are pleased to announce that these badges
can now be supplied at 4s. each, post free. A
considerable number have already been sold, and
we are delighted to hear that the badges have
given entire satisfaction to our members who have
received them. Applications to the Secretary.
Major J. R. Ainsworth-Davis, owing to pressure
of other work, has been obliged to resign the
MILITARY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
We have been pleased to award a copy of Immortal
Salient Guide to Mr. W. S. Hartley, of 3, Victoria
Terrace, Far Headingly, Leeds, as a prize for the
first correct solution opened on December 9th.
Our readers may be interested to know that
only three solutions were correct among the
large number sent in.
