WAR NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 233, 11 March 1915, Page 5

WAR NOTES.

GERMAN AMAZONS. it is how established beyond dispute that a number of winm nx.o flgftting on both sides in the campaign in Russian Poland. Hem'- iui>t»n«o« of Russian amazons have already been mentioned, and further eases have been brought forwsrd. by H»- British official war 'correspondent who has been allowed by the Russian fMnmvjNderJn-Chiel to accompany the Hussion troops to the •rout. Several of the .Russian newspapers have lately given .Mails of th« discovery of German women fighting in the Gorman ranks as volunteers, Among tlie women at present being treated in a. Russian hoßpitul there were seven wo* men who wnsj captured 'while lighting, in German uniform. They were placed together in a special ward. They are fine specimens of Teutonic womanhood, and the Russian nurses admire their fine developed muscles, which seem to indicate that they lis re belonged for years to German gymnastic societies. They display to their captors the same haughty and, contemptuous indifference which chwacteriiics Prussian officers. One of the nurses offered them a Rus••nn newspaper printed In German, biff the. patient indignantly tossed the paper aside, declaring that she wouldn't "believe anything that appeared in a RussianfiULWspapcv even if it wore printed in German. Althoueh those women refsue to disclose anything about themselves, or how they'came to he in the fighting line, it is judged by those who know the German people that they come from the upper middle clans,. It is believed that they belong to some German suffra. gette movement, and are seeking to prove the German woman's claim to political suffrage by fighting on the field of battle. One of them died from her wounds shortly after her admission to the hospital.