EDITOR'S NOTES.
The Ypres Times.
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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.
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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."