Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1918 — FRENCH WOMEN PAINT GUNS [ARTICLE]

FRENCH WOMEN PAINT GUNS

Thousands From Fourteen to Past Sixty Years of Age Working for the-British Army. 7 Behind the British Lines in France, —Many thousand French women and girls, ranging in age from fourteen to well past sixty, are employed by the British army at various kinds of work behind the lines. 1 One task at which they excel all other workers is the painting of camouflage on guns. They also make good packers at the various army storehouses and ordnance dumps, their deft, active fingers making it possible for them to do this work with 50 per cent more efficiency and speed than any other class of workers. In many of the clerical sections of the ordnance department they work side by side with the uniformed English girls belonging to the women’s auxiliary army corps. The French girls have no knowledge of English.