. Review of reviews and world's work. finework. HEAVY SUBSCRIPTIONS TO CHARITABLEFUNDS The peoples part in the war is remarkablefor its practical enthusiasm, more particu-larly in view of the disastrous drought of1914. The public have subscribed, up toMay, 1916, nearly $20,000,000 in donationsto the various patriotic funds. About halfof this amount is for the wounded soldiers,the balance being devoted to Belgian reliefand Red Cross funds. Hundreds of thou-sands of dollars worth of wheat, beef, mut-ton, and other go(jds have been collected forthe Belgians, and innumerable gifts andmotor ambulan
. Review of reviews and world's work. finework. HEAVY SUBSCRIPTIONS TO CHARITABLEFUNDS The peoples part in the war is remarkablefor its practical enthusiasm, more particu-larly in view of the disastrous drought of1914. The public have subscribed, up toMay, 1916, nearly $20,000,000 in donationsto the various patriotic funds. About halfof this amount is for the wounded soldiers,the balance being devoted to Belgian reliefand Red Cross funds. Hundreds of thou-sands of dollars worth of wheat, beef, mut-ton, and other go(jds have been collected forthe Belgians, and innumerable gifts andmotor ambulances for the Red Cross. Australias part in the (ircat War ma\ notbe large compared with tiu colossal effortsinvolved in all F^urope. But added to themore or less equal efforts of New ,Canada, South Africa, and India, and com-bined with the great energy of (jreat Britain,the British P^mpire, working unitedly in onedirection, must exert a powerful and o\et-whelining inHiicfKc on the Miccessful courseand duration <it the A DETACHMENT OF BRITISH 1-OKCta IN CAMP IN EAST AFRICA GERMAN EAST AFRICA BY JAMES B. MACDOXALD CUT oft from the world for nearly twoyears and assailed on all sides by ene-mies, the Germans in East Africa have madea gallant fight. They are defending a coun-tr}- almost twice the size of Germany itself,densely populated by natives who only a fewyears ago tried to drive them into the of this unpromising material they havedrilled and armed a large native army. The war opened with British cruisers bom-barding the wireless station and governmentbuildings at Dar-es-Salaam. A Germancruiser returned the call, and sank a smallBritish war vessel dismantled in Zanzibarharbor. Some skirmishing on land took placeon the northern frontier. Troops from theGerman military station at Moshi occupiedTaveta, and held it until recently. Theyalso threatened Mombasa, the seaport andterminus of the British Uganda Railway;and. to hold them in check, Indian troopswere
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