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Show BRITISH WOMEN JOIN CORPS OF RESERVES i j Viscountess Castlereagh Is Colonel, Purpose Explained. Ex-plained. LONDON Dec 16 7 05 p- m. A meet ing was held today at the Mansion hou e to aid the movement for the formation of a women s volunteer service the ob ject of which, according to the lord mayor who presided. Is to provide a trained and high eff c ent bod of women whose services can be offered to the state If requ red buch won en said the lord mayor could be trained for slgna inf, dispatch riding telegraphing motor ng and camp cooking and could thus rep ace men who might be more us fu y e np o ed on the firing line. The R ght Honorable IIenr Chapl n M. P explained that the corps was tn ; tended to be employed the e ent of an Invasion of t is countrv bv hordes of German barbarians It was not pro po ed to arm women for aggression he added but to arm them for their own defense in the last e tre nitj is ery dif ferent and entire y ju tlf ab e Four companies of the vomen s vol un eer resen e already ha e been formed with Mscountess Cas lerea,, e.s colonel |