EAST AFRICA ON A WAR FOOTING.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15452, 3 December 1915, Page 3

EAST AFRICA ON A WAR FOOTING.

PRINCIPLE OF UNIVERSALSERVICE ADOPTED. Writing on September 30th, Router's Nairobi correspondent said: —Never'in the history of the Protectorate has such unwavering loyalty been shown as that di-olayed at a huge mass meeting held in the Theatre Royal to decide what steps should be taken with a view to organising the entire resources of the country in order to maintain its integrity against, a common and unscrupulous foe. The meeting—the most representative ever held in Nairobi —estimated at ]000, carried unanimously and with great enthusiasm the following resolution :—"That this meeting, In-lieving that the administrative, professional, industrial, commercial. and military resources of this Protectorate should he organised in their entirety 011 a war looting, and realising thq,t 110 sufficiently comprehensive system is possible without extension to all citizens of the principle ol universal service, already initiated by the Native Carriers' Oidin--anoe/ does hereby ask for such extension of the, principle ot universal service, jind unreservedly places its members and their resources at the disposal of H.K. the Governor and Commander-in-Chief the better to enable him to maintain the country's due part in the immense task which besets our King and peoples. - ' With the snecific object of introducing and passing through all its stages so as to immediately become law, a Hill introducing an Ordinance to make provision for the registration of adult liersons within the Protectorate, a special session of the Legislative Council was held. In commending the Bill to their earnest attention, the Governor emphasised its importance and urgency by describing it as the foundation of the machinery which was to he designed in order to give effect- to the unanimous public determination to uphold in the fullest degree by individual and collective effort and sacrifice the integrity of the Protectorate and the safety and welfare 01 its people. The Bill was passed. In order to make ready for universal service, the women in the. capital are already making a move, and under the banner of the Women's War Work League, have outlined a scheme under which it is intended to work. Their object is to organise women for war work, to enrol themselves for war work, to arrange classification of women by returns ol snare time for war work, special qualifications, clerical, nursing, care of children, sowing, motor driving, organising shop work, tvnewriting aihl bookkeeping, matrons of hospitals, spare accommodation, and to put, up one or more women and children if the uecessitv arises.