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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FROM THE FRONT. It is a far cry from Windsor races to the trenches in Flanders, but the admirable sisum of postal service maintained by tin- British army in tin- leld ! is enabling the acknowledgement from Belgium of hi Istmag cheer supplied by the contributions of race goers to many men who had no relatives m families of their own to remember them. In New oil. ans. in Havana and la Juarez, as well as iii i . da, .nils are now being received by contributors who had probabh forgotten about their gifts, but rater oily reminded b the recipients. In each parcel sent abroad wa-i the name of one of the sub scribe** sad a card stating that tin- funds for this gift to the men of the Eighteenth Battalion were collected by Mrs. K. .1. Baxter at tie- clubhouse of the Winds r Jockey Club during the races in August. Francis Nelson in Toronto Globe.
