PRINCESS AS SOLDIER.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 229, 24 November 1916, Page 6 (Supplement)

PRINCESS AS SOLDIER.

WOI'XDED WHILE KIGHTIXtJ WITH THE III'SSIAX ARMY. The startling discovery lias just born made that a Russian "soldier'' recently wounded in battle in Valliynia, and now living in a military hospital at Khnrkoff, is none other than Princess Yolonsky. "The Princess's story is at owe tragic i and romantic. Her husband, Prince Volonsky, was killed by the (iernians early in the war, and not long alforwards her lather and brothers were killed also. The Princess, who is sturnv in figure and posses-es a character oi great determination, th.reupnn resolved to-join the Army a> a volunteer. After cutting her hair short and Jre-i----ing like a man eid'sted a- an 01dinary soldier. Not until she had fought for some months oil the soutl:I western front was her sex discovert <l. She was t-lt.ii sent to Kieff to be tlis. charged from the Army, but the Prin j i cess succeeded ill eluding the vigilance of her gun ids and returned to the figh r - . ing line, where she was wounded.