Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-08-04 | Page 3 | English Girls Keep Post in Shell Tornado

ENGLISH GIRLS w KEEP POST IN I ISHELL SHELL TORNADO f. f Gig Haired Gray i G-i Hail Woman X onlan 1 Vl b Saves Lives I of Workers vr h During Irin Hun Heal Air Raid Universal tUt Service Senco Staff Start Correspondent London 3 1011 on Aug AUg 3 Stirring Stirring tales of ot tr perils r and heroic deeds decd of or ng tat lairs lair's girl Irl soldiers somewhere In torn Franco were told by Mn Mrs Ir II H. T J. J ach head hoad of or the In an nn exclusive clu I e Interview with Universal l Service Ser here hele Hun Nun airmen Irmen were bombarding bombar and an smashing to Smithereens tho the r few fe w re remaining re- re buildings In Inn an n already shell shell- wrecked town up near th trio tha French Trench lines Everybody E save Te on one girl was wai scampering scampering scam scam- for shelter That girl n. n tin tiny old JS lS French Trench lass la g a telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone operator with bombs an and shrapnel r nel nl 1 pouring about hout her razing a portion of or the vcr very building In which sho shot acct t remained at her post through It all h Girl untied D By n t miracle she came through without without with with- out a n scratch Of or or course I Iwas was as frightened at nt first she rhe smiled but I remembered I was wag wasa waga a It soldier My Iy duty duly came mc first So I Iju just ju JUB bucked up and Jammed the plugs Into the the- switchboard for dear life warning ar ng residents In to towns farther tarther U 1 I Heres Here's how n a gray hatred woman I Z n nac commandant of a n camp of SOO girl n Women's omens Army Arm j corps b by her heroism and md calmness i under fire saved swed tho the lives of or every erY I member of or her camp during a Hun raid that ruined and reduced to a R. pulp I e every r building In tho the camp It was WiS midnight when a n. bomb from one of or tho Germ German planes exploded In Inthe Inthe the tho center of or tho camp Frightened h clad half women omen ran from flom their beds bcd What might have h resulted In a n panic with Its appalling death toll was w whipped Into an in orderly procession to the tho shelter trenches b by the calmness of ot the commandant s t Groin Cross Ile It For For more more than three c hours and and- anda a half halt during luring the raid sho carried tI coffee and food tootI to the tho girls Ahls In the tho trench and antl HIr ed bUo buoy up their courage with re reassuring rc- rc assuring re-assuring assuring humorous half stories ho was given gl a n military cro cross s. s The Thc coolness of or tho the girls hem hem- selves an and perfect discipline was vas as wonderful said Eald Mrs Leach That's Thal's the cla class a 3 of or woman now beIng beIn beIng be be- In Ing sent to the American army In France Each one of them will win re- re lieveR soldier from routine dut duty such ns as chauffeuring officers officers' ord orderlies rl cs clerks etc for tor dut duty In the trenches Starting at nt the be beginning of or the war wara Hh a n few h husband army cooks cook the j cs has grown Into Into- Into Into-a a great arm army of or girls and women of whom are nr In service In France Franc Home Some drive o arrn army motor trucks and 4 officers officers' cars car s some Iome do cooking bookkeeping bookkeeping book book- 1 keeping stenography and some soma even rare care for the tho graves giaves of or soldiers In J Fin nee All 11 show shout the bravery braven and heroism of or j ent under trying c conditions condition After lr camp was ruined by br the German line Jc Ie raid the same girls were trans trans- v tp lp another nearby camp Three later Corpus Christl their new camp Cam vas was attacked In Tn the same orderly fashion they the marched to the shelter I trenches A b was dropped In one of or the W liches and exploded In the midst of thc Nine were killed and twelve Injured But there was oas no no panic The g calmly cared caled for the victims The narvel of all was their discipline said ald ire r Leach Lench p Mary iary ar Is the honorary h head ad of or the and Mrs Leach wife of Ie General Leach is the executive executive tive e head