WOMEN POSE AS MEN AND GO TO THE WAR

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2355, 11 January 1915, Page 2

WOMEN POSE AS MEN AND GO TO THE WAR

. s Women and girls in largo numbers are trying to ontor tho Russian army m various disguises, and several womon have already succeeded in docoivintr tho military authorities. The most successful havo been tho masculine-looking poasant women of tho northern provinces. Amongst thorn is mdezhdo Omasky, a thick-set, welleducated peasant woman from the pit)vmee of Archangel. She posed as a man through the second part of the Manchurian campaign, and: was praised ' for her courage by Qenoral Grippenborg, ■ olio fought in Soptombor in South Poland, and it was not until aftor tho .battle of Lublin-Kra6uik that hor box was discovered. A girl namod Liuba Uglick, a twenty-year-old attraetivo looking giij. was prcaont at lour engagements in East Prussia and West Poland, and has been wounded slightly. Sho- says that during the long-range fighting sho had no ' four, but hud a torror of crossing bayonets. with tho enoiny. Two daughters of a lijnded proprietor at Knrck have been arrested 011 their way to join the colours, one of them posing us "Prince Odriaiioff" and the other as hor servant. A [)oasant woman who was killed at Cnmhiunen hud donnorl hor husband's \ clothes «nd impersonated .him, as ho had shirked the summons. Sho did not wan ' hor family to bo 6hained. ]