The Pulaskian., 1915-01-29
Amazons 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 PHILIP EVERETT.
dnternational News Service)

Onternattonal 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 will be faced by an army of English Amazons, carefully drilled and trained to the use of the rifle com pared to which these Teutonic women warriors are mere bagatelle
 When I first heard of the Womens Volunteer reserve, 1 thought it was a joke or rather a new ebullition of the suffragette class, but after visit to Old Bedford college and view of the determined women perspiring through their military drills, I must confess that my feelings have changed.
 Tt is not to be concluded that the women will rush to the coast and fight the moment the Germans make landing They will take up the rife Ouiy Wucu 0lSdI Dltldll IS III QSSV6I- ate straits. Till such an unhappy time the reserve will simply act as disciplined body of women, skilled In first aid, cooking, dispatch riding on motorcycles, signaling and the care of horses
 At the same time the riff is not being neglected" said Viscountess Castiereagh, the colonel in chief of the women's emergency corrs. "All the women are spending time in the private rifle ranges and there are some astonishingly 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 of the officers of the women's reserve that women bear certain forms of hardship better than men. It is a we'll known physiological fact that women are less suspeetible to cold and wet than the stronger sex. Their bodies are better protected by fatty tissue. This is seen on the bathing beach where women are able to enjoy them selves on chilly days when most of the men seek the clubhouse. The same condition should be true in wet, damp trenches. It is also accepted that woman, once her nervousness is over, and her determination is in spired can stand more physical pain than man.
 "In fact" said my woman informer, ''the only way the women would be inferior to man soldiers would be in the long marches"
 At Old Bedford college, which is the headquarters of the Womens emer- gency corps, found Col Viscountess Castlereagh and Hon. Eveline Haver- field, honorary colonel. hard at work with their recruits Mrs. Haverfield is remembered for her carefully or ganized remount camp, which she built up at the time of the Boer war.
 Go Through Infantry Drill.
 Nearly hundred women were go- ing through the regular army infan- try drill. They were not women of leisure either Most of them had put through days toll already in an of fee or along ome professional line.
 Several rngular army officer. in uni form were present to assist in the work. The war officers at first took a contemptuous attitude towards this movement tfst they have come to see the value q it just as the usefulness