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Show TO HELP THE SOLDIERS. j English Women Engaged in the J Work of Relief. j London, Feb. 13. As the conviction grows in Great Britain that the war j will be loiig, the efforts for providing j for the sick and wounded and the fami- ; lies of the soldiers at the front, are re- j doubling. There is scarcely a woman in ! I England who, in addition to making ar ticles of clothing for those in the field and in the hospitals is not working for and contributing to some social fund. Mrs. Arthur Paget's entertainment tonight brought in over 5,000 for the families of the household troops, in which her husband is a colonel of the Scots guards: the mansion house fund exceeds 630,000; the Daily Telegraph fund amounts to H'.i,000 and the Daily Mail's totals 77,000. These amounts -cover only the larger London funds and do not include numerous provincial funds of large amounts being raised to equip volunteers. The equipment of the Yoemanry hospital hos-pital has just left England for the Cape. The ladies at the head of this charity have now decided to raise funds to keep the hosoital going for six months and have ' issued an appeal to the British residents of the United States. |