DRUGGED AND CAPTURED
HOW A RUSSIAN HEROINE TRICKED THE HUNS. jßr ffclesraDli—PrE'S? As*rcin.tion—Ct>nyi'i»in Petrograd, January 28. A little girl of seventeen has been awarded the Cross of the Military Order of St. George. Twenty Germans marched up to her father's farm "in Courland. The lieutenant threatened that slio would be violated and the farm burned unless she produced wine. The ijirl recalled that there were two barrels of old liquor in tlie cellar. Before she brought the wine up she diopped into it a powder made from bluebells, which brings on drowsiness. The barrels were soon emptied, and Hie Germans rolled on the floor ono after another. The girl filled a bowl and gave it to the sentries, saving it was by the lieutenant's order. Then she returned and disarmed the Germans, hiding their weapons in the cellar, while her father roned the limbs of the insensible men. Finally the girl traversed the swamps and found a Siberian outpost. A few pails of ice-cold water woke up the (Unmans, who were horrified to find M- 1
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2682, 31 January 1916, Page 5
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176DRUGGED AND CAPTURED Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2682, 31 January 1916, Page 5
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