Educated girls are showing their feelings in different ways.
Some are wearing their smartest clothes and getting a collecting box from the Red
Cross headquarters and parading the streets, or making house to house collections
for the Red Cross funds. Some wave handkerchiefs from their balconies whenever
Territorials march past. Many are wild to learn Red Cross First Aid and above
all, bandaging, which is a thing they cannot possibly do except in civil and family
life... Girls say they are determined to get to the front somehow; when they find
that impossible, they want to be called up for some nursing help in England. It is
a perfect mania with the untrained...
Heard that the Sherwood Foresters stationed in Bombay were
prepared for any native rising. They were guarding the docks and their maxims
were all in place. This does not tally with Lord Crewe's speech in the House
of Lords, counting upon the extreme loyalty of all sections in India and the
intense desire of the native regiments to fight beside the British troops.
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