BRAVE RUSSIAN WOMEN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 6, 8 January 1915, Page 4

BRAVE RUSSIAN WOMEN.

According to the Exchange Telegraph Company's special correspondent at Potrograd women and girls in large numbers are using various disguises and pretexts in endeavours to enter the army. Several women have already succeeded in deceiving the military authorities. The most successful have- been the masculine-looking peasant women of the northern provinces. Amongst them is Xade/.hda Ornasky, a thick-set, well-educated peasant woman from the province of Archangel. She posed as a man through the second part of the Manchurian campaign, and was praised for her courage by General Grippenherg. She fought in September in South Poland, and it was not until after the battle of LublinKrasnik that it was discovered she was a woman. A girl named Liuba Uglick, aged 20, was present at four engagements in East Prussia and West Poland, and has been wounded slightly. She says that during the iong-range 'fighting she had no fear, but had a terror of crossing bayonets with the enemy. Two daughters- of a landed proprietor at Kursk have been arrested on their way to join the colors, one of them posing as "Prince Adrianoff" and the other as her servaut. A peasant woman who was killed at Cumbinnen had donned her husband's clothes and impersonated him, as lie had shirked the summons. She did not want her family to be shamed.