The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 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 win Direct Flight Of Women
and Children From Scene Of
Fighting and II Necessary
Shoulder Rifles.
BY PHILLIP EVERETT.
international News servlcel


London.-We read I'm dispatches
that at least nifty German women,
fighting In the trenches in mems cloth.
ing, have been taken captive by the
Russians near Warsaw. II 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 a mere b~agatelle.
When | FIRST heard Of the Women's
olunteer reserve, ] thought Il was n
Joke or rather a new ebullition OF the
spfragette class, but after a visit to
Old Bedford college and a 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 win take up the rife
only when Great Britain is I'm desper.
ate straits. TIL such an unhappy
time the reserve will simply act as a
disciplined body OF women, skilled in
first aid. cooking. dispatch riding on
motorcycles, signaling and the care
Of horses,
AT the same time the rib is not
being neglected" said V~iscountess
Castlereagh, the colonel In chief OF
the women's emergency corrs. "AlI
the women are spending time IN the
private rife ranges and there are some
Rstonishingly good shots among them.
There Is no reason in the world why
a woman cannot be as gooG a marks.
man as a man."
II was also pointed out to me by one
Of the officers OF the women's reserve
that women bear certain forms OF
hardship better than men. II is a we'll
known physiological fact that ONE
are less s%uspectible 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. Il is also accepted
that a woman. once her
is over, and her determination Is In
apired. can stand more physical pain
than man.
In fact, said my woman informer,
'the only way the ONE would be
inferior 10 man soldiers would be IN
the long marches"
AZ Old Bedford college. which il the
headquarters OF the Women's emer.
gency corps. ! found Col. Viseountess
Castlereagh and Hon. Evellne Haver-
field. honorary colonel. hard at work
with their recruits. Mrs. HGvernela
Il remembered for her carefully OF.
ganized femount camp. ~hich she
built up al the time Of the Boer war.
Go Through infantry DRILL
Nearly a hundred women vert go
ing through the regular army infan.
try drill. They were not women OF
leisure olthers Most Of them had put
through a days toll ALREADY IN an Of
nee or along ome professional line.
Several regular army oficer in uni
form were present 10 assist I'm the
work. The war officers az first took a
contemptuous attitude towards this
movement but they have come 10 see
the value Of Il Just as the i%sefulneas