AMERICAN DECISION
ENLISTING WOMEN FOR WAR WORK
(Rec. 10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, April 15. The War Department announced that women would be recruited for the civilian ranks and Army Signal Corps to help to meet the urgent need for engineers and technicians. This will apply particularly to women who are skilled in radio engineering and electronics. The House Naval Committee approved a measure to increase the Women's Auxiliary Reserve in the Navy to relieve men for sea-going duty. Enlistment will be voluntary, and the age of admission will be 20. Women will be used for communications work.esuch as coding and decoding, and for photographic 'and laboratory work, as well as cooking and other tasks.
the southern tip of Cebu Island several days ago. "Our light torpedo-boat, after sinking the hostile vessel, managed to escape though repeated salvos were fired by an enemy destroyer, which attempted to come to the rescue of the cruiser."
The Kuma class cruisers are of 5100 tons and mount seven 5.5 in guns. They were completed 20 years ago.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 89, 16 April 1942, Page 5
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