A NOTABLE CHANGE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 25 May 1915, Page 7

A NOTABLE CHANGE.

WINDOW-SMASHER BECOMES A

MAJOR

Nothing short of astounding are the topsy-turvy results of this war. Here is the latest example (says an English correspondent of - the * Christchurch Press). Only a little more than a year ago, Dr Lome Garrett Anderson, the clever and intrepid daughter of a famous mother, was serving a six-weeks' sentence for window-smashing in connection with the "Votes for "Women" movement. Now she has1 been given the title of ''Major" in the British Army, a title which few, if any save Royal women, have ever held before.

In co-oneration with Dr Flora Murray, Major P. Garret Anderson, as she must be known henceforth, organised the first women's hospital that left for the front, and the establishment, which was at first set- up at Claridge's Hotel, in Paris, and subseouently was .transferred to Wimereux so as to be nearer the actual fighting line, has won golden opinions on all sides, and was the first to receive official recognition by the military authorities. Now Major Anderson is coming back from France to organise and b^ke charge of a military hospital with 500 beds near London.