SIX BRAVEST WOMEN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 43, 20 February 1941, Page 8

SIX BRAVEST WOMEN

QUEEN HEADS THE LIST. Asked by the editor of a New York daily news magazine to name London’s six bravest women, the London correspondent of that paper cabled his reply and the first name he gave was the Queen, whose calm sharing of danger had been an inspiration to the nation. The other five were Mrs. Scanlon, wife of the American General, Martin Scanlon, who is attached to the Embassy in London; Hilde Marchant, reporter on a London newspaper; Maude Hall, chambermaid; Ivy Hickson, cleaner of the Waldorf Hotel. Mrs. Hickson, who lives in a heav-ily-bombed district, sheltered each night in the crypt of a church where five were killed and 30 injured when it was hit recently. With her husband’s aid she helped the injured, the young, and the sick, and then went home to find her house levelled. Both she and her husband turned up at work at 6 a.m., and they are now living in a rest centre. The chambermaid, Miss Hall, has been bombed out twice, but has never ceased to serve tea with a steady hand. “The raids are a waste of time and will not frighten us,” she said.