Hide Article Text (OCR)
(By Nixola Greeley-Smith) Yesterday’s despatches from the Russian front told how Russia’s worn-j the en warriors, forming the Legion of j oria Death, took 102 prisioners, including [ an's two officers, after their men comrades j skir had deserted their guns. A cable from j nst ' London related that women in Russia have proposed to train themselves to man battleships and that Prmier Kerensky has accepted their offer.Women' have been found among . German prisloners taken on the Rus- t Bian front. .Serbia too. had its death j Rm legion of women fighters. t f himMore than a year ago a woman pn- and Vate in the Russian army was mem-tioned in the official communique for her desperate bravery in penetrating the enemy’s barbed wire entanglements and bringing back valuable information after she had received a bullet In the head and the bones or one of her arms were shattered.These are merely the most recent instances of a universal feminine quality which makes women equal to any danger they have to face.Generals who have dealt with women soldiers have declared that they equal men in courage and surpass them in desperate obstinacy of defense. The records of American talst-ory attest the bravery of women in battle, and in looking back at the records of the Revoluntionary and the Civil wars women need not fear comparison with the valiant amazons of the Russian “Legion of Death.”We have never put whole regiments ol’ women in the field—and 1 trust . Jhat we never shail—but we have had * individual heroines who were regiments in themselves.in January. 1915. a little old lady died in the Woman's Relief corps home near Norwich, X. Y- She was Kady Brownell, in the Mechanic’s Rifles of of the Grand Army of the lie public, who for years after the civit war was
Newspaper Details
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Fri, Aug 03, 1917
Page 8
Full Page
Clipped by
Anonymous
PA, USA 12 Jan 2019
Other Publications Near Fort Wayne, Indiana
Fort Wayne Daily News
Fort Wayne Daily Gazette
Fort Wayne Daily Democrat
Dawsons Fort Wayne Weekly Times
Dawsons Fort Wayne Daily Times
