works all the production is done by women drawn from the leisured classes. They are 

 under the supervision of a few trained foremen, and work ten hours a day. The women 

 are not only doing the work well, but seem to be thoroughly interested in it. 



The London Chronicle correspondent says: "In all the armament areas thousands 

 of women, sometimes tens of thousands, are at work in the big towns. Under one roof 

 in Birmingham I saw three thousand girls engaged in making fuses for British and 

 Russian shells — and Birmingham is ringed with factories. At Newcastle a single 

 munition firm alone employs six thousand women. The point that has to be remembered 

 is that these hosts of women war workers have volunteered from widely varied conditions 

 of life. It is a democratic army, like our army in the field. There are well-to-do 

 women in the ranks, as well as domestic servants; there are school teachers and shop 

 girls, the daughters of professional men as well as the wives of soldiers at the front. 

 The uniform of overalls raises them all to the same level." 



THE WOMEN OF AUSTRALIA 



Resolved: that this meeting of the National Council of Women of Victoria 

 urges all women to be steadfast in this time of suffering, and to use every effort, 

 no matter at what personal cost, to secure final victory; in order that their 

 children may succeed to the heritage of their fathers, the freedom of the 

 British Empire. 



Such was the resolution drawn up at a meeting of the Australian National Council 

 of Women. 



Surely it is a strong bond of union amongst the wide flung Dominions of our Empire 

 that women in the British Isles, in Australia, in New Zealand, and women in Canada, are 

 all resolved on one thing, that no sacrifice is too great to make, which will help to serve 

 the Empire in the time of its dire need. 



How loyally women there have already given of their best, we all know. We 

 Canadians who cannot think of Ypres, of St. Julien and Langemarck without a thrill of 

 pain as well as of glory, can understand the feeling of the mothers and wives of the 

 Australian heroes of Anzac. Australia may previously have meant little to us. Hence- 

 forth it must mean a land of heroic men and women. 



Every Canadian woman worthy of the name will join with the women of Australia 

 in the resolution which came from their National Council of Women. 



GIVES ALL HER BOYS TO CAUSE OF FRANCE 



Speaking of his experiences at the front, Baron Malaussene, adjutant-lieutenant, 

 in a recent interview, said: 



"The Canadians fought like lions; they are great fighters. We in France are 

 grateful to every mother in Canada who has sent her son, and for the blood of Canada 

 that has been spilt on the battlefields of France. We will not forget, but we pray that 

 it may cement a more lasting friendship in the years to come between this country and 

 that across the seas." 



Spirit of the Women 



"Yet there are still many in your country who have not yet felt that there is a 

 war — who feel no duty upon them to serve at this time. We in France realize that we 

 are fighting for the lives and the honour of our wives and little children and our national 

 freedom. Ah! it is because you are so far away that men do not realize the need of 

 England, the cry of France and her allies, for help. Behind the splendid heroism of the 

 fighting men of France there is the spirit of the women. Ah! the brave, courageous 

 women. There is not a woman in France today who is thinking of her own comfort 

 or pleasure before the cause. It is the grand spirit of the women of France that is 

 helping her through these terrible times. 



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