RED WOMEN’S ARMY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 November 1939, Page 8

RED WOMEN’S ARMY

INVASION OF POLAND.

Communist women are included in the Red Army forces sent into Poland in the Soviet Russian invasion from the east, states a correspondent in an overseas exchange.

Joseph Stalin dispatched part of the women's forces in the army to help occupy this former Polish section of the White Russian Ukraine. The women are chiefly aviators and chauffeurs.

Seven women aviators and a number of chauffeurs are stationed in the sectional army headquarters here. 7hey have separate quarters and wear two types of uniforms —one of regular Red Army stvle and the other with a skirt. The women fliers are said to perform their duties of flying bombing ‘planes, bombing and mach-ine-gunning under war conditions as competently as their military brothers.

'This correspondent was driven about the streets of Brest-Litovsk by a broadfaced, red-cheeked, smiling girl of about 19. She wore a regular uniform. Her army cap fitted neatly over her clipped hair. She handled the automobile as expertly as she did the cigarette stuck in a corner of her mouth. She appeared capable of handling the revolver strapped about her waist equally well.

Despite Ihe equality which governs the Red Army, the feminine corps receives a little more attention than the men.