eart of London, and the
mansions of Viscount Wimborne and Lord Brassey have also been thrown
open for the service of the Association.

The trail of the Red Triangle was first blazed in the United Kingdom,
and since then it has become familiar on every fighting front, and in
all sorts of queer and unexpected places: in the jungle of India; on the
banks of the Tigris, the Euphrates, and the Nile; amid the swamps of
East Africa; along the valley of the Jordan; in the Egyptian desert; in
the great training camps of North America; in Australasia and South
Africa, as well as in the plains of Flanders and Picardy; in the valleys
of the Somme, the Marne, the Meuse, and the Aisne. It is to be found on
the Varda and the Struma, and we have seen for ourselves how that trail
has been welcomed by men of many nationalities--Britons from the
Homeland and from the outposts of Empire, from Canada, Newfoundland,
Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa; Indians, Chinese, Cape Boys
and Kaffirs, Frenchmen, Portuguese, and Belgians, and wherever the
trail of the Red Triangle goes it stands for reconstruction even amid
the horrors and desolation of war.

An officer cadet who had spent two years in France, said he had noticed
a great change in the attitude of the men. 'In the early days of the
war,' said he, 'men on arriving in new billets at the Front would say,
"Is there no Y.M.C.A. in the village?" Later on they took it for granted
that the Red Triangle was there and asked, "Where is the Y.M.C.A.?" Now
they always say, "Where is it?" and every one knows to what they refer.'
It brings comfort, hope, good cheer, and inspiration with it. An English
boy writing home from Egypt to his people in the Midlands, said that the
Y.M.C.A. was to him as 'a bit of Heaven in a world that was otherwise
all hell.' A visitor to the Association at Kantara expressed his
surprise at finding such a splendid Y.M.C.A. building in that Egyptian
centre, fitted up even with hot and cold baths!

A sum of L400 was taken in a single day over the refreshment counter in
one of the Y.M.C.A. marquees in the heart of the Sinai Peninsula, and it
will give an idea of the immense amount of work involved to the staff of
the Association, when it is remembered that all stores had to be
conveyed from the railhead to the Y.M.C.A. on the backs of camels.

A British soldier writing from the 'Adam and Eve' hut in Mesopotamia
said, 'I should like to comment upon the wonderful work th