TELEPHONE No. 5052 The Canadian Red Cross Society Victoria City and District Branch Temple Building 421 Fort Street Victoria, B.C. July, 1918

Cable Address "REDCROSS"

Chairman F. W. JONES Telephone No. 923 Vice-Chairmen MRS. FITZHERBERT BULLEN Telephone No. 553 D. JAMES ANGUS Telephone No. 5082 Hon. Secty.-Treas. CHARLES WILLIAMS Telephone No. 1794

Staff Provincial Library Victoria.

DEAR SIR OR MADAM,-

From the enclosed Circular regarding Canadian Prisoners of War, you will see that owing to the impossibility of carrying on the adoption system, it has been decided to do away with same.

The Canadian Red Cross Society will continue, as heretofore, sending six food parcels monthly to every Canadian soldier who is a prisoner, also clothing, tobacco, bread, games, etc. It is estimated that this will cost the Society $200 per year for every prisoner.

As a District Centre this Branch has undertaken to guarantee the amount required to pay the cost of all parcels sent to men who resided in the District under its jurisdiction prior to enlistment.

To do this it will be necessary to have the continued support of all our subscribers who have so generously contributed to the upkeep of this fund in the past.

May we still count on your help in the future for this worthy object?

All contributions should be sent to this office and a list of subscriptions will appear in the newspapers twice a month along with the names of the prisoners under our care who have sent acknowledgments to Headquarters.

Yours faithfully,

CHAS. WILLIAMS, Hon. Secretary-Treasurer.

BC Archives, MS-1901 Box 1 File 11 / RUSSELL, Alma M., 1873-1964. Victoria: librarian. / Selected miscellaneous letters and ephemera, 1914-1917.