"Realising that there are thousands of patriotic Australians ready to give to the Empire's war chest in this great crisis the proprietors of [several newspapers, including the Globe] offer their services as a medium through which money may be donated. In order that everyone might give it was decided to inaugurate a Shilling Fund.

"Even now British soldiers are laying down their lives in France and Belgium and British blood is flowing in the North Sea. We who do not fight can help to keep things going at home for those who are doing their country's work in the firing line.

"Not one of us will not be affected to the uttermost limits by whatever attends the arms of England and her allies. Therefore must we all take our share be it ever so humble, in bearing the burden of the world's future.

"The sacrifice of a week's pocket money, or the price of a tin of tobacco, of the cost of a fashion journal, is a very small affair in itself, but, added to a thousand similar sacrifices it becomes part of a big and solid lump of genuine help that may be applied in a thousand and one directions."

* In our poster the kangaroo has bayoneted a Turk's fez.