with lines of examiners from Woolwich, but the worker is well aware that in the last resort much must necessarily be left to her own conscience. She knows, too, that a faulty fuse may mean the blowing out of the breach-block, and the wounding or killing not of the enemy's men but our own.
The women have done almost miraculous work in the munition factories, but they have their limitations, and it would be madness to forget it. The first of their limitations is want of physical strength, and the next their lack of long mechanical training. Here, for example, in one big shop, is a line of girls sitting idle for a quarter of an hour at their lathes, because the lusty labourer who lugs the heavy shell-bodies in his hand-bogey along their "street" is away sick for the half-day. Here, again, is a girl whose machine has been pulled up by the failure of a clutch, or, perhaps, for want of the tools which wear out quickly against the hard steel, and require frequent changing. In the
