WOMEN FOR MILITARY SERVICE
The bill which is said to he in existence in Hungary bringing women into compulsory’ military service, “elsewhere than on the field of battle,” is a curious, but not uninteresting development of Continental military organisation. Women between the ages of thirty and forty, if not members of the Royal Ramily, nuns, or mothers of infants in arms, are to be liable, if the bill ever passes, to be called out for work in connection with the field hospitals, or with the telephone and telegraph sendee, or for preparing food, or attending to the clothing of the troops. Compulsory training forms, of course, part of the scheme. Women would be drafted into regular corps for these various duties. The limitations of age strike one as rather curious. But otherwise th© bill is of such a kind that its progress and the comments it may arouse are sure to be closely watched in other countries.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 45, 15 June 1914, Page 4
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