NEW JOAN OF ARC.
•The Pall Mall Gazette, o£ May 4th, described an incident in the insurrec r tion, among the Albanian® which is very interesting. The correspondent says:—"The battle of Viranye last week was won for the Albanianis by a woman. A battalion of Turkish regular soldiers was sorely pressing several Albanian bands who were.repeatedly, but -uselessly, delivering a front attack against the advancing Turks. A young woman was commanding a few "brotherhoods" of the clan Martinay. Seeing the danrge rof her people, she moved quickly her small band, and vigorously attacked the Turkish battalion on its left flank, forcing it thereby to retire from the already won. position. The girl, Yanitza. Martinay,, is.now already sung in the songs of the Montenegrin bard«. in the inns ami coffee-houses of Podgoritsa. She is young, tall, and handsome, and of an ''"iajidomitaJbi'le'.'."courage■,!•';. ; She lost her fiance in the Albanian-attack on the, fort of Shipchanik, . and when 'lately"' Tier;-farther;'' 'the:' hereditary, commander of certain brotherhoods of their clan, fell in battle, suie immediately stepped into his palce and led the Martinais to the encounters with ; the Turks."
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19110628.2.15
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10273, 28 June 1911, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
185NEW JOAN OF ARC. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10273, 28 June 1911, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in