EDITOR'S NOTES. The Ypres Times. 41 to pay is. a year as subscription. Close on 50 boys gave in their names; one of the boys was elected hon. secretary, and he obtained from the Secretary of the League forms of enrolmentthese he is getting filled in and forwarded with the is. subscription. Each member is given a card of membership with his name engraved on it, and it is proposed to hold at least one meeting of the centre each term, this meeting to be chiefly of a social character. All members of the Junior Division are invited by the London County Committee to attend the Annual Children's Party held in London in January each year the party this year was a great success. We would like it to be understood that it is not in the least necessary that those who join the J unior Division should have had any near relatives who served in the Ypres district or in Belgium. The object of the League is to keep alive the memory of the wonderful resistance there made to the repeated German attacks and the heroism there displayed by thousands of British troops. AH who wish to commemorate this heroism are welcomed as members. We look to the Junior Division especially to keep this spirit alive, and by self sacrifice and comradeship to maintain the purposes for which so many fought and died. We propose pub lishing in future copies of The Ypres Times accounts of the doings of the branches of the Junior Division, which have been already7 formed, and the editors would wel come any such news items. We particularly hope that more schools will form centres. The Secretary of the League will be pleased to arrange for the free loan of the lantern slides for a lecture, and if no lecturer is available, there would be little difficulty in providing one if application is made in good time. THE YPRES LEAGUE HEADQUARTERS AT YPRES. Members are cordially invited during their stay at Ypres to visit our headquarters at No. 19, Rue Surmont de Volsberghe, where they will receive a hearty welcome from our representative Captain P. D. Panninter. Here, too, they will find an excellent library comprising the majority of the war and divisional histories, which are available for the use of all visitors. Captain Parminter ably conducts the Wipers Auto Service and organises tours at moderate charges. Private high-class automobiles with British drivers can be hired for any distance or length of time. Telegraphic address, Autos, Ypres." TelephoneYpres 26. "HOME AND ABROAD," A finely printed and illustrated monthly review edited by E. M. Channing-Renton, and circulated throughout the English-speaking world. It is devoted to short studies in literature, art, history, photography, poetry, travel, etc., but also pro vides a medium whereby those who write and draw are enabled not only to publish their work, but to secure adequate remuneration. To these pen and pencil men and women Home and Abroad offers exceptional facilities for introducing their names to a world-wide market. The review will be sent free of any charge for three months to readers of The Ypres Times. Address Home and Abroad, c/o E. M. Channing-Renton, Hotel Pension Eden Corniche, 156, Promenade de la Corniche, Marseilles, France. Our sincere thanks are due to the Editors of The Observer, The News of the World, The People, The Referee and Canada, for giving their generous publicity to the Ypres League during the last quarter. WAR MEMORIAL OF THE ROYAL ARTILLERY (CORRECTION). Lieut.-General Sir Herbert Uniacke, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., C.B., has requested me to point out an error in his article pubUshed in The Ypres Times, Vol. 3, No. 1, January, 1926 (p. 11, para. 1). 15-pounder gun should be amended to read 13-pounder gun." SAPPER'S BRAVERY AT YPRES. In response to a newspaper advertisement. Sapper R. A. Johnson, now a brick setter, of Fleetwood, met at a Blackpool hotel Mme. Cliers, whose two children he rescued from a burning chateau in the Ypres Salient in 1915. Mme. Cliers heartily thanked Sapper Johnson for saving her children, gave him a present and invited him to visit the chateau this summer. By kind permission of the "Daily Mail."

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