BISLEY WAS WON IN SARAJEVO

Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1930, Page 7

BISLEY WAS WON IN SARAJEVO

MADE' MEN OF WOMEN. (‘‘The Sydney Guardian.”) When an emotional youth fired the fatal shot- at the Austrian Archduke in July, 1914, he won the King’s Prize for an Englishwoman at Bisley in July, 1939 In other words, the shot at the Archduke started the Great War, and the necessities of 1914-18 made men of / our women. The war transported woman as nothing else could have done into the activities which for so long had been regarded as tliq province of men alo.ne, and once the emancipation had been started there was no going back. Man-power was required at the Front, so woman stepped into the jobs which man vacated on the home front. . She went further and, joining he W.A. V.C.’s, took on duties within sound and, at times, within reach of the guns. ? The war over, wMjnan decided not only that what shPhad she would hold,' but that frorp that jnmpipg-off point she would enter into direct competition, with man, As n result, Amy ’ Johnson- flew solo from England to Australia, a woman swimmer hois broken 60sec for 100 yards. .<» woman has . won the King's Cup for flying against and row a woman has won the King’s Prize at Bisley, a shoot for which the crack shots of the world enter, • Carrv the evolution of woman a little further and the next war will be started by the misplaced patriotism of a woman; woman will go to war, and mere man will keep tlie home burning.