ANARCHIST GIRL COLONEL.

Taihape Daily Times, 13 September 1919, Page 5

ANARCHIST GIRL COLONEL.

LEADING FIGURE IN RUSSIAN ‘REPUBLIC. . ' , Corpenhagen. M. Broendstcd, a Danish physician.who has just Ife‘turnede from _Russia, has‘ given pal'ticula‘l‘s-of as-_visit. he made only three weeks ago -to~the B-erdiansk Government ill;,Taul'ida,»~whic'h .is now reported 4to__ be in General Deni-ken’s possession, but mas‘ then an Anarchist 'l‘epll‘blic;. '*gove{rned ‘by L the dictator Ma1(}i11O. ‘"‘ . A A ‘

"Makhno '-was - called “father,” and although he—‘had .no titles or symbols, he possessed an army of 10,000 men, well armed with guns. iand "machine guns. Almost all of them were mounted, and the Elector said that for years he had not seen better cavalry horses.

“The dictator received me in a cottage surrounded by wast fruit gardens, but no guard,” said M. Hroendstad. “Having examined my papers minutely, he said: {We acknowledge no communist nor Jewish soviet government", nor Deniken’s bourgeoisie. Seeing that you‘ are Dsanish and have fought the Germans, our fees, and that you are neither Bolshevist, Jew, nor Denikenist, you pass free or sfay here. We need physicians for one of the Anarchist Cossack reginmnts’. ’ ’

Colonel Manus’hla. ‘ Nikifirovna, 3. girl of tV_venty—fivc, a tall, pretty, Caucasian type, who speaks English and French, held a prominent position "in the Republic, which at the time of the «loctoi-.’s visit enjoyed good living, a loaf being fifty times cheaper than at 3\losr.=(m' -or Petrograd.

Afforwa.rd‘s "Dr. Broendsted, travelling west of Kieff, came upon a Stretch of f’o_l'l'ifol'y tllil"£y‘ miles wide, where the villMa»gol's having tried life. under five «]if'r'c-rent Governments, were leading an idyllic life without any governmeut.

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‘M7. :2 popu)-,-gfi-ml of about a. million and a half.) /\