December i8, 1915. 
LAND AND WATER 
A Great 
Christmas Appeal 
TO PROVIDE 
100 NEW Y.M.C.A. HUTS 
The Finest 
Christmas 
Gift of all. 
npHERE is no finer or 
-■• more acceptable gift 
which you can send to our 
brave fellows on Service 
than one of these huts. 
The following are very 
urgently needed: — 
new hnts for the 
British sector in tlie 
French battlefields at 
£450 each, plus £150 
-_-, 1 for equipment. 
100 i 
new huts for the 
home camps at £300 
to £600each. Loca- 
' lion on application. 
£50,000 to meet present 
liabilities and to provide 
for immediate extensions. 
£10,000 for work among 
our troops in Egypt, the 
Dardanelles, Salonika and 
Malta. 
£5,00O for India, Burmah, 
and Mesopotamia. 
Huts may be named in 
accordance witb the wish 
of donors, and gifts may be 
earmarked for anr phase of 
the Y.M.C. A. in Military, 
Naval, Convalescent, or 
Hospital centres. Complete 
buildings can be named in 
memory of friends or rela- 
tives fallen ia the war. 
As a Christmas Gift to our Brave Troops. 
CHRISTMAS is almost here, 
and again hundreds of 
thousands of our brave soldiers 
will spend it away from home 
— many of them in one of the 
Y.M.C. A. huts scattered along 
the firing line in France and the 
Dardanelles; in Egypt, Malta, 
Salonika, India and the Home 
Camps. 
But the number of these build- 
ings is far too small to provide 
for more than a fragment of our 
vast armies in the field. To meet 
the immediate and pressing calls 
for assistance which are daily 
being received from each of these 
great theatres of war, the National 
Council of the Y.M.C. A. earnestly 
appeal to the British Public to give 
another hundred new Y.M.C.A. 
buildings before Christinas t 
Can you realise what it means 
to our gallant soldiers to have 
one of these buildings in 
their midst^often within a few 
hundred yards of the firing 
line itself ? As they come out 
of the dripping trenches, along 
roads often knee deep in snow 
and slush, their first thoughts 
are of the Y.M.C.A., where in 
warmth and shelter they can 
forget for a while the bitter 
hardships of war. Such a build- 
ing is very much more than 
a place of physical refreshment 
and social good ; it becomes 
for them a veritable home from 
home — a piece of the Motherland 
itself. 
How many thousands of oor 
readers have received letters from 
absent friends abroad written on 
Y.M.C.A. paper? 
With a winter of exceptional 
severity already upon us the 
need is urgent. To be of real 
service, the buildings must be 
put in hand at once— the workers 
are ready — 
Will you give one of 
these new^ Huts to-day? 
Donations should be addressed to Captain R. L. Barclay, National Council 
of Y.M.C.A.'s, 13, Russell Square, London, W.C. See coupon below. 
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