WOMEN'S AIR FORCE.
MODERN AUGEAN STABLE. I.ORDS" COMMITTEE OF INQUIRE LONDON, October 19. i"he notorious <p:iarrels connected witl the Women's Air Force are being yen tilated before a select committee of th' House of Lords, composed of Lord Wren bury, Lord Denbigh. Lord Kintore, Lon Slethuen and Lord Farrer. Many notei social war-workers attended the inquiry with generals and oißcials. Seven King" counsel have been briefed. Miss Vioiet Douglas-l'ennant. who wa summarily dismissed from the post o commandant of the "Wrafs" in August l!>18, asserts that her claims became un popular amongst the heads of the Mir istry because slip was a zealous reformei and insisted that the "Wrafs" wer shockingly disorganised, especially oi the medical and clothing sides. "Hercules would have been unpopula ivith officialdom when he turned th water on the Augean stables," said he counsel.
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 252, 23 October 1919, Page 5
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138WOMEN'S AIR FORCE. Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 252, 23 October 1919, Page 5
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