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Recruiting:I'*: -r i l'I(To th» Editor). ■Sir.—I notice that the ladies , i Invere]) have leagnred themselves together with the nhjfit of adding an impetus to tin* cfTurts of revruitera. Thi- is * wise. 2*4 Imii*( in.I patriotic set on the pert nf tie* lain-* r.f that district, and one which it j.hoped, ladies of other parts tin*monwealth will endeavor to rnmhte. 1 think that the women of Ataerrniut • •.ubl do a great .ical in the way of infusing into young men national pride, and « | r»p,.r j Isen«e of their duty to their count r\ \ Jlarge per rentage of the women of W*inl 4 are courageous enough tn make p l ...Mi » •re. 1 luring the American civ i. •*«-. ,• was proposed. lirsl, that the slat.-. *1, j be liberated and armed, to fight ,c„u..! j the Vault-. That wa- tabooed. Tn-u.'..r«.* day, a woman came to General Lcr. ;r, r Held, with what -he considered ini; r.ii{ intelligence, and, though ahe «too I a i'*, r.• he rain loneof ahot and shell, ami th-.iich warned of the danger -he waa in. %).• 1no notice a« thongh i|Uii* oblivion* : li-r lurmundingf, or i|iiite mi perv ton s f .. ,»»r ahell. It waa Niiggc«(ed to Grrieni !.•••-. t by an officer present, that it would :i good thing l» arm women. The G-ri.n assumed a luguhri-m, fnv, and laeon u \ replied, 'uoonv ctn p.»»»ibly better uii I atand «*r appre.-inu- the courage of than 1 ran.I..; I kn.ov they am *• 1-afraid nf hit :m.l .Jodi a« are the i.i Hut I f.-nr ihut tlm «./111irra nf |the P army undcrMiirid w men just aa well n we »*f i hr (' •iifrdcrotc ariuy. That l»I he raoe iL»y m ml i know that all I winll lr n.'.'i-nn m order to get |*o*•ion ..f a irou. h hr. I by female warn would he f..ra •■•Mi.-rt . •tealthily appr the treuch with n Imi.Ifiil of mice, frog• pidern. u*i I ih.- ri'.i would l»e easy, don't .put.* ago*.- with the General. I V tliiuk there are plenty ••f women who w.m! I not he - urr.l from rheir dtiir l»y frogs • ■ '' mice. We know llmt n furkish female ’ «mjvr w«M-«| mrr.l. ai IiaJJi}».Ji. wilh ngoily number of British official scalps at pi her gin 11^. nn.l a c«»u*id*raM«* auiouni ot 1: British g.dd in her |».. k.t . and I am not hi willing 1. udinit tli.it lurk.«h women a*c M morn couragecu» ih.n H- s•.. i u..mcn nrr. What mi intigrntmg Hbvi it(,., ,r*«nig Knr.i- 1nean victory w ill lime .#:» i t ; *,• ..t‘ dmBritish Empire. It w-i||V a inn.. \v. ( fore any more w ill be heard nUc •••« «iuag the painter. Frou l. iri his .... ml. b.rn % at the |ioa-ibility of the drilling «w»\from the Mother I'ountrv, uni . the V New Guinea embroglio ns nri «• ..f how the neveranee might devi'li.p. | iierc i- no doubt but that, in llmt parn uiar in-tamre, the Queensland tiuver-.tnenr wn« right, and the British froTcmtueat wr .ru Had the Hritiah authorities been u tv.-el hy the |wople of Queensland ihc,. w.cibl not Imre arisen the ocraaion f-r «etidiin» 1 I Atutraliau soldiers over to New fiiuhen i But. i don't think, after all, that the An-, j , tralian people erar thought seriously *d |trying tn sever their coonei'lion with the re-t of the Empire, or. in other w.»r«K ,.f snapping asunder that c rim won thread of kinship which the lats Sir Henry Parkcs used to speak a goot deal. The councding fibre is uo longer a mere crimson liliment, hut s veritable aaugtiine cable; since men of welbnigh all orevds, colors, and languages, and from ovary part of the Empire— even the most remote—are. side by side, shedding their blood in defence of the dear old Km j ire. While the-noble British navy it sealonsly and faithfully defending Itin fivintiftM nf (k* U*!..,..
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Nowra Leader
Nowra, New South Wales, AU
Fri, Jun 16, 1916
Page 5
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