We have great pleasure in recording the success of the Army Christmas Pudding Fund which was initiated by the “The Daily News” and to which our own readers have in a small measure contributed.
The full demands of the War Office have been met and enough pudding has been sent to the front for all the armies in the Western expedition (France and Flanders) and the Mediterranean forces (Dardanelles, Salonika, Egypt, Gibraltar and Malta).
There remains a small surplus, which is being devoted to the wounded.
The total amount of the fund is some £26,000, which represents at least half a million households of every rank in life. His Majesty the King himself subscribed £25.
Many scores of tons of tin-plate were used for the tins of many hundreds of tons of pudding. A special steamer took the puddings to France, and the precious cargo was fully insured.
