AIR FORCE INQUIRY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11930, 28 October 1919, Page 7

AIR FORCE INQUIRY.

UNPOPULAR REFORMER. London, Oct. 1 . The notorious quarrels connected with the Women’s Royal Air Force are being ventilated before a select committee of the House of Lords, composed of Lord Wrenbury, Lord Denbigh, Lord Kintore, Lord Methuen, and Lord Farrer. Many noted social war workers attended the inquiry, with generals and officials. Seven King’s counsel have been briefed. Miss Violet Douglas-Pennant, who was summarily dismissed from the post of commandant of the Woman’s Royal Air Force in August, 1918, asserts that her claims became unpopular among the heads of the Ministry because she was a zealous reformer, and insisted that the force was shockingly disorganised, especially on the medical and clothing sides. “Hercules would have been unpopular with officialdom when he turned the water on the Augean stables,” said her counsel.