At the annual business meeting of the Bedford College Students' Association, the Duchess of Marlborough, who was in the chair, gave an address on the work of Women in war time, in the course of which she eaid:— was given an interesting in-*j] stance of woman's pluck by an eyewitness in the recent fighting in Belgium. A motor ambulance driven by a woman accompanied by a young girl hed been giving most active and useful assistance in the firing line, the women going in and out of the trenches at' their work, quite regardless of the heavy shell fire around them, but there came a lull in the number of wounded and the officer informed them that for the time there was nothing for them to do. 'I wish,' he added, ' that I had something to send these eleven German prisoners back to the base in.' Without a moment's hesitation the women said, ' give them to us, we will take them back,' and strange, incredible as it may appear, these two women, unaided and alone, did take the eleven unwounded German prisoners to the base in the motor ambulance, a distance of twenty miles. My informant adds that when he asked them if they had been frightened, they answered that they had expected a blow on the back of the head any moment, and were surprised to have reached the base in safety.
"We have never questioned women's courage, but their usefulness at the front, had, I confessed, never presented itself to me in this manner before. With the increased use of motors we may see an ever growing number of women doing useful work as ambulance and convoy drivers."
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