RUSSIAN HEROINES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 12, 9 October 1917, Page 5

RUSSIAN HEROINES

THRILLING STORIES TOLD BY THE WOMEN FIGHTERS "THE LEGION OF DEATH" i llr: W. N G. Shepherd, the Petrograd" cprrespopdent of the United Press ' ciatiou, writes a tliriliinjj story of the ; Russian.- Women's Legion of Death: Oa a recent evening, lying side by side in ; beds "in the town hospital, wore five girls of the Legion of Death. They were. Buffering from shell:shook, all paralysed in. various* parts of their bodies.,. One peasant girl had a German helmet beside heiv "I saw a German in front of mo (she; told me), and stabbed hm with inv bayonet,-: and. pulled the at the same time. I killed him, and toot hie Jiat'as a' souyenir/ , i She smiled deliglitedly. ~, , , "What did battle look liter I asked another girl. •; . . " 'Twas verv- nervous work just belorc we charged. "I knew the order to oharge was coming, and I think I got a little frightened, but ns soon as the order came I'for"et everything and ran forward, and heard lots of girls: yelling and ehouthie to advilDoi. Nono of U3 wpre afraid when we started shooting. Terrific sheUs . ivcre"breaking all around. The first dead man I" saw -friglitenecl mo a little, bus we had to jump over corpses and soon a third girl, who described' tho taking .of German prisoners. We couldn't tell wliat was going on an\where,"- she said. "Bptchkoreva the was everywhere -®™ 0 ?5 " upon us to iilfht, to die like Russian soldiers. Suddenly m.« Germans right ahead of jf dnhlv they "were l.n our ijudst and we wo all wound them. Thev/threw down their.i'ifies, liftinjf up their hanfc. They were terribly frightened. • Good -.fa^XaeS Taiaed" themselves on their .eIDPJfSj to , "We forgot tirely. Wo were not ourselves. -AVe were i *sassK: !i*iM fr 5 h Jcl been killed, and she dashed forward. tejssssuf&mi' ?ell among tho girls, killing frfegg dozen and wounding twenty-five ..before th Mvo C ff U fte womeu in men's The numto we b"lie a vedto m be growing to large ; Pl ßotchkoreva, the rirW , was suffering from shell shoA. She wm 1 with both men and women, she said. . "my girls were divided into 6««ral lots. , T ledh&lf- of them into tho charge, th« ;r,i -t.Aif divided into small parties o" 1 ! Jo and no option but to nnM. aitfjas.'W&S"',": >i saicHl'm in the Army because my bis- •; 3 ' Percluirena. a sales girl in a j liitr"tore, said.she had joined ftV6U ?° ' her hSand. who had been killed in -j Evodkia Menerikova, who spoke English w»H, • w *«» a ! on 'a .Transatlantic linor, W'd- I know j American .women well. If they Knew tfafacts "they would not be surprised. ; They would do exactly tho 6ame i lar circumstances." . Nataly Svanzmger, , \ chauffeur, said driving didn t make ft i si, enough dent in tho enemy, and sho, ... a round-faced, blue-eved girl in a corner cot. aughod: , "I'm a papas girl, and got the mpK ; namo because I -went to j instead of working. All declared tlie.v would return to the" front. The Germans , who were captured by the girls hov>ted , a sign before the attack, saying: Send ; us your women. We will pav you : "They sent us, but we carried bayonets, - tj said one. '- j