Women shift to war factory work as England mobilizes
Correspondence from London notes a rapid rise in women in active employment, with 2,000,000 more women in 1916 than a year earlier. It details housing, transport, and welfare challenges as women flood munition plants, offices, banks, and shops, while highlighting disparities in pay and conditions between munition workers and those in non‑manufacturing roles.
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Associated Press
London
England
Young Women's Christian Association
Many British Prisons Closed Since War
London reports a £500,000 cut in next year’s prison estimates about 12 percent driven by wartime crime declines. About a score of prisons are partially or fully closed, eleven in smaller towns like Chelmsford Hereford Stafford and St Albans. Crime dropped sharply in the year to March 1915 and is expected to fall further in the current fiscal year.
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London
British Isles
Commissioners of Prisons
Clemsford
Hereford
Stafford
St. Albans
French Politicians Debate War Records for Public Office
Paris observers discuss whether future candidates must show a war record after peace. Deputies from various parties contest the idea while local leaders like Neuilly’s mayor Nortier, killed in action, set a model of citizens fulfilling military duty. Debates hint at shifts in the 1918 political campaign and postwar accountability.
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Monsieur Nortier
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Japan awards honors to troops who seized Tsingtau fortress
The imperial household announced honors for about 8,000 Japanese soldiers who captured the German fortress at Tsingtau on November 7, 1914. Lieutenant-General Mitsuomi Kamio and Vice-Admiral Sadakichi Kato led the list with high orders and pensions. Other officers received similar decorations with pensions, while rank and file received decorations and monetary grants.
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Tsing-tau
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Mitsuomi Kamio
Sadakichi Kato
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