10,000 WOMEN VOLUNTEERS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2462, 15 May 1915, Page 11

10,000 WOMEN VOLUNTEERS

■'-'I .WANT TO MAKE BU6LETS TO KILL GERMANS." London, March 23. 'Already more than 10,000 women have responded to the Government's call for -women volunteers to do , the work of men who aie of military age. "Everyone is most anxious to do something," said one of the principal, women, officials of tlie Labour Exchanges yesterday, "but the great difficulty, is to . discover what they are best fitted for. It will take at least a jreek to classify the volunteers. "Most of the women want to go into ammunition factories. 'I want to make bullets to kill Germans,' said one girl. Quite a large number of women m the south-west of England are prepared to do agricultural work. One woman of good social position, who drives her own car, has offered to take a milk round. Many are anxious to become taxicab drivers, and one has sent her photograph in chauffeur's uniform. 10-day several women who are qualified wireless operators volunteered to go to sea in merchant vessels, so that the men operators may be released for naval work.

"The women of Woolwich have come forward in a large body, and almost .without exception they want to go into munition factories.

"The average age of the applicants is between twenty and thirty, but some are seventeen'and others sixty."

Any woman who is ready to take up work has only to register herself .at the Labour Exchange, or she can get a form of registration by post from the headquarters of the Labour Exchanges at Queen Anne's Chambers, Westminster,, . S.W., or from local 'Labour Exchanges.

At the meeting of the Essex Education Committeo in London yesterday it .was decided to release Dr. E. ,S. Hawks, a school medical inspector, who desired ■to take a commission, and to appoint in his place during the w«r Mrs. Leitch, a woman doctor whose husband was serving at the front and who desired herself to help the country.—"Daily Mail."