The Chitina leader., 1914-12-22


 WOMEN SOLDIERS WORRY OFFICERS PETROGRAD Dec D. By mail to New York)-The army authorities having their troubles discovering and sending back to their homes who volunteered the ranks disguised There have been numerous instances of the kind started especially among the masculine looking peasant of the northern provinces.
 One of these Nadezhda Ornatsky muscular we'll educated peasant from the province of Archange She had posed through the second of the Mancuan campaign, and was praised for her courage by General Grppenbeg Early in the present she enlisted and fought in South Poland, and it not until after the battle of Lubln Krasnck that her discovered and she discharged
 A girl named Luba Uglcki present at four engage mens in East Prussia and West Poland and wounded slightly She says that during long range fighting she had fea but had horror of crossing with the enemy
 Two daughters of land proprietor at Kursk have been arrested their join the eolor of them posing ''Prince Adriano," and the other as her servant.
 peasant woman who was killed at Cumbinnen had donned her husbands clothes and him when he shirked the She did not want her family to be shamed
 Two school girls of the capital aged H. the Grand Duke Nicholas begging to be accepted volunteers The Grand Duke wrote them personally paising their patriotism but recommending that they find scope for their service in caring the wounded adding I convinced you had the occasion you would uphold the glory and might of the Emperor and the honor of your counry.''
 young Russian woman, referred to in the newspapers Mile B. has been recommended for the St. Georges Cros the Victoria Cross of Russia She is the daughter of Russian captain of artillery and accompanied her fathers battery the front private after cutting her hair short She took part number of battles Augusto and is lying wounded in Petrograd hospital
 BERLIN Dec 1s-The sinking by the Kaiser's cruisers of two British torpedo boat desroyers during the the North Sea- following the bombardment of the English coast last Wednesday, is officially claimed here today TOKIO Dec 19-British warships- have captured the sailors who escaped from the cruiser Emden the schooner Aysha the time the men driven ashore an island in the bay of Banga November 10 and burned LONDON, Dec 18-An official announcement has been made both at Berlin and there general retreat If and A yesterday stated that the entire right wing of the Russian army in Poland being withdrawn.
 OTTAWA Ont, Dec. 16.-A secret store of arms and ammunition being searched for the Isle of Orleans in the St. Lawrence River just off Quebec. concrete base upon which siege gun could be mounted already has been found there tract of land bought two years ago by Gernah who established there plant for the manufacture of concrete blocks commands the defenes of Quebec and of the St. Lawrence channel. Last summer moving picture company the leading officials of which Germans spent the summer on the Isle Orleans reproducing the battle of the Plains o Abraham and making films of it. They employed several hundred young men of the Vlc1nlty uniformed them anu provided them with which they borrowed from local military authorities They had both cannon and rifles and fired large of blank ammunition in their operations The firearms which they borrowed returned to the authorities but it has been reported that they took advantage of the opportunity land and secrete them n pits wc were carefully covered.
 The concrete foundation destroyed and eXcava ons made in search for buried So far none mas been found the island 20 miles long and seven miles wide search likely prove tedious At its nearest point the island four miles from Quebec As far as the Canadian military authorities have been able to learn the hls made last never shown
 BERLIN Nov 25.-By mail to New York)-German officers tell me that the most distressing and at the time astonishing message that has into their war oce was sent from Won Kluck's army near Noyon, France
 'Send to take of 14OO lunatcs, was the gs of the message which from officer of the medical Icorps
 Investigation disclosed that many of the doctors and some o the nurses of the great French asylum for the insane at Chaunv deserted their posts the Germans adVanceo There are walls surrounding the asylum grounds as the asylum is built the advanced lines and the boundares of the grounds are only deep ditches.
 The asylum buildings mistaken by the Germans TOT