YOUNG RUSSIAN AMAZONS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2666, 11 January 1916, Page 5

YOUNG RUSSIAN AMAZONS

CAMPAIGNING' IN 'THE CAR-' PATHIAN PASSES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. January 10, 8.15 p.m.) Petrograd, January 10. ■ Several well-authenticated stories 'of women serving in the Russian Army are current.' • The nio3t extraordinary is tho exploit of twelve Moscow school girls at the beginning of tlie war. They purchased uniforms, boarded a troop train, and readied Lemberg, where the fiOldiere welcomed them as tlieir com-rades-in-arms, and concealed- tlieir identity. Tho officers heard tlie story, and ordered them to be sent back, but they pleaded to be allowed to remain, offering to get their hair cut. Tlieir regiment was in the passes of tho Carpathians, the girls sharing all tlio horrors of that campaign. They admit that they sometimes blubbered when tlie German shells fell; but add: "Even the men woro afraid." One girl, aged fifteen, was killed by a shell, and others were wounded. One was made a corporal and decorated with tho Cross of St. George. Tlie »irls wore finally persuaded to leave the firing-line and nurso 111 tho hospitals.