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Show HEADS WOMAN WARRIORS The Women's Volunteer Reserve, organized by Viscountess Castle-reagh, Castle-reagh, whose object is to defend the homes of the English nation against the expecteu ierman invasion, has acquired additional prestige, since Lady Castlereagh, the colonel in chief, through the death of her father-in-law, has become the marchioness mar-chioness of Londonderry. At the war office of the W. V. R. in Baker street curious crowds have watched the former Lady Castlereagh arrive every day, attired in khaki, to spend many hours at ier desk perfecting per-fecting by correspondence the details . of the mo-;ment, which she intends (. shall extend throughout the whole of Great P-ltain. Londonderry house, . one "f the most splendid mansions of the metropolis, where the new marchioness mar-chioness is mistress, is now the head-Quarters head-Quarters for fashionable enlistments, the leaders of society having been somewhat timid in lending their names S- i SKI, " to an organization which takes in many of the most violent of the xnktant suffragettes. The government has no intention of allowing the women to bear arms o;'f lets them be trained to act as drivers of motor cars, cooks lm the camps, ' bearers of dispatches and telegraphers to transmit army messages, to relieves men assigned to such duties in case of need. ! |