11 MARCH 1916, Page 3

The Women's National Land Service Corps was inaugurated in London

on Monday. This is a truly important movement, and we heartily wish it success. The Duke of Marlborough, as "the largest farmer in England, with perhaps two excep- tions," said that he knew he could make use of women, boys, and old men on the land, and what he could do others could do. Mr. Walter Long said farmers were slow to move, but, after all, it was not for them to say that women could not do the work ; they ought to be grateful that women were coining forward. A farmer who was a patriot ought not to employ a single man who could be spared.