Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-02-03
lmaz0nS Are Carefully Drilled
and Trained in Use of
the Rifle.
TO HELP REGULAR MILITARY
IN Case Of German Invasion the Re-
serve Will Direct Flight of Women
and Children From Scene of
Fighting and If Necessary
Shoulder Rifles.
BY PHILLIP EVERETT.
International News Service)


LondOn.-We read in dispatches
that at least fifty German women.
fighting in the trenches in mems cloth
ing, have been taken captive by the
Russians near Warsaw. If the Ger
mans ever invade Great Britain and
the situation becomes desperate they
viii be faced by an army of English
AmazOns, carefully drilled and
trained to the use of the rife COM
pared to which these Teutonic women
sarriOTs are a mere bagatelle.
When l first heard of the Women's
Volunteer reserve, 1 thought it was a
Joke or rather a new ebullition of the
sufragette class, but after a visit to
Old Bedford college and view of
the determined women perspiring
through their military drills, / must
confess that my feelings have
changed.
1T is not to be concluded that the
women will rush to the coast and fight
The moment the Germans make a
landing. They will take up the rifle
only when Great Britain is in desIer-
ate straits. Till such an unhappy
tine the reserve will simply act as a
disciplined body of women, skilled in
1Fst aid, cooking, dispatch riding on
motorcycles, 1ignaling and the care
Of horses.
AT the same time the riff is not
being neglected" said Viscountess
tastlereagh, the colonel in chief of
lie Women's emergency corps. "All
lie women are spending time in the
private rifle ranges and there are some
aStonishingIy good shots among them.
There is no reason in the world why
woman cannot be as good marks
man as man."
It was also pointed out to mo by one
o. the officers of the women's reserve
taat women bear certain forms of
hardship better than men. 1t is well
Known Physiological fact that women
are less suspectible to cold and wet
!aan the stronger sex. Their bodies
are better protected by fatty tissue.
his Is seen on the bathing beach
were women are able to enjoy them
selves on chilly days when most OF
Tue men seek the clubhouse. The
same condition should be true in wet
uamp trenches. 1t is also accepted
IaI woman, once her nervousness
over and her determination is in
spFea, en- stand more physical pain
than man.
In fact said my woman informer,
uae only way the women would be
.l'erlor to man soldiers would be in
Tue Ions marches"
At Old Bedford college, which is the
headquarters of the Women's emer
Sency corps, l found Col. Viscountess
SSaSlereagh and Hon. Eveline Haver-
~s-a' honorary colonel, hard at work
IKE their recruits. Mrs. Haverfield
remembered for her carefully or
Salized remount camp, which she
'0'i' up at the time of the Boer war.
Go Through Infantry Drill.
Nearly a hundred women were go
.ls through the regular army infan-
drill. They were not women of
.s'Sure either. Most of them had put
through a days toll already in an of
's or along ONE professional line.
0eVera! regular army officer in uni
urn were present to assist in the
.OfA The war officers at first took a
NOu'emptuous attitude towards this
rO'ement but they have come to see
~s value Of 1t just as the usefulness