Evening star., 1937-09-12

shrewdness and charm above the in
ternational average
The Fuehrers mind is made up on
the question of women conscripts. He
intends, should the Third Reich move
toward war, mobilizing the bulk OF
younger available Womanhood for
service on the home front. Apart
or mutilated bodies of potential
mothers-he would get enough OF
those from hostile air raids-Hitler
envisages using his Nordic frauleins
as women were used in Britain in the
last war, with the difference that sery-
Ice will be obligatory.
Hitler has had study made OF
what England did during the World
War. And now German girls of the
Hitler Youth, many hundreds OF
thousands of them, are being hard
ened by exercises, route marches and
open-air life.
/ can bear witness to the thorough
ness of this hardening process. For
was in Nuremberg on the occasion
Of the rally Of 1000 girls, aged 10 to
IT. in the Marktplatz now sacred to
the Nazi cult. For three hours the
girls we're made to stand drawn up
in the square, lighted torches resting
on their hips. Even tough professional
troops would find that an ordeal. AS
time went by many of the girls COL
lapsed, one after another. and were
borne from the scene by nurses and
Brown Shirts. Intrigued because so
many returned. I wandered until /
discovered a large-size hotel that had
been converted into a casualty clearing
station: here scores of the mothers of
tomorrow were being revived and for
tilted by ambulance personnel Anx-
ious relatives crowded around. It was
scene that no other land could have
produced.
One interesting innovation is being
essayed in Germany. Girls who have
shown bent that way. mostly at the
universities, are being trained for
auxiliary intelligence work" This
includes topography and communica-
tions-telephone. telegraph and wire
less under field-service conditions
Certainly the right type of young
woman could assume some of the du-
ties that we're undertaken by intelli-
gence officers on the Western Front.
The examination of captured docu-
ments and correspondence, hush-hush
clerical work and keeping graphs and
statistics took up great deal of time,
and women could do the job equally
Well-even, possibly, with their added
intuition, interrogate prisoners and
refugees. The writer recollects being
passed for Languages, for the British
Intelligence Corps, by wholly de-
lightful creature at the war Office.
The German girls selected are to
be seen out training in the vicinity
OF the bigger universities reading
the country" busy with wireless sets,
learning how to repair broken lines.
No doubt instruction is also given
concerning what to observe and listen
for, or to provoke in the way of in
discretion" when they travel abroad.
German women are also active in
aviation. There is Hannah Reitsch,
for example, who is test pilot for the
German Research Institute Last Nav
she was handed commission by Gen.
Goering, Air Minister-the first wom-
an to be thus honored in the Reich.
Contagion Spreads to Asia.
Press photographs of japanese
Amazons marching rife on shoulder
indicate that the contagion has
touched Asia. Beneath one such
picture Paris caption writer put
"Woman's new occupation-and she's
welcome to it!"
Inc extent to which women have
really fought in Spain, or even helped
IN the fighting zone, must remain
problematical for the present. That
women have participated in the first
line is proved by known casualties:
yet 1t seems that many of these-per-
haps the ajority-have been foreign.
The main use of Spanish girls has
concerned rather their publicity pa
rades and the egging-on of their
'novios." That female Reds can be
potent force in this direction has
peen aoundantly demonstrated. Many
of their sex have further acted the
spy, eavesdropper, decoy and agent
provacateur-and suffered for It,
Otherwise it is more than likely that
what stands for the Italian girl goes
also for her Latin sister of the Western
Mediterranean-the young Spanish
woman is not physically or tempera-
mentally built for CHASTITY twentieth
century campaigning
Many in Europe are shocked by the
way women are being dragged into ac-
tive warfare. Yet it has been pointed
out that women conscripts serving be-
hind the lines and on the administra-
tive side would be better protected
than the civilian population of great
cities.