It was those at home who formed the focus of today’s paper. Firstly, in a bid to free men to join up and help speed up the production of munitions, the Government called upon women to make themselves available for work via a Register of Women for War Service (pages 9 and 10), a measure which met with the approbation of Suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst and to which the Telegraph expressed confidence that “the women’s part in this great movement … will be taken up with enthusiasm from one end of the country to the other.”