The farmer and mechanic., 1915-06-01
WOMEN FIGHT WITH THr All.
Every Great War Has Fopna a.
bers OF Gent1er Sex Fnl,,t..t M M
Stealth or Openly. ~


Women fighting bravely sh,...
10 shoulder with men. present -
spectacle in war PractjcaU, ~"
Dig war has found women .pI.t
stealth or openly on both sides
Civil War had a number Of WON.
engaged, some Of whom won fan.
for instance. DR.. Mary E Wake
hady Browneil, who was buried i.s,
year in this city with military hr,..-
Others less known in our Civil "
included Frances Hook. who erl-..t
at the age of fourteen and h..
distinction of being the younce~i -,
who fought on either side Al otti
regiment. commandered bv Coi,+I
Morrow. had a girl doing mans 49,
until he discovered her sex ana ser,
her home. Another girl, who u.ax'
queraded under the name Of ''F-.n.
Henderson,, was mustered ou1 ~ ~
end Of her time, but promptly -
listed and had not bullet cauyft her
in the leg she might have ser,es
throughOu, the struggle her real Sey
unknown. Mary Owens fought IL
man until a bullet made her a sut.ee+
for the hospital. A Brooklyn g =
was wounded on Lookout Mo0n,.5n
So far no British or French women
have been taken to hospital bas,> and
their sex discovered. although recently
| a French officer was tried for shoo.
| ing his wife dead because she INSIST
ed upon accompanying him to pr
and his superior officer Threatened -
court-martial him unless he sent h,s
wife away. She refused to go The
| man, driven to the border Of lrearitv
| through the unreasonableness Of The
| woman. who showed her love IN this
way, felt compelled to Kill her. and
| he did. A court eXonerated him
Germany in the campaign against
the Russians had a number of women
| fighting in her ranks. But Russia j.
the nation that furnishes more wo-
men as fighters than any other nation.
| Indeed, Russia today has in her heht-
| ing ranks women who are veterans
| Austria, too, has women lL ~
ranks. Only the other day Fraultm
Marie Weissmans sex was discover
ed when she was to be made az of.
ficer for bravery. She was theu
transferred to the Red Cross
| 1t was not very difficult matter
for Fraulein Weissman to get int The
army, for she enlisted as a oue-year
volunteer, with men having secon-
dary education. who serve al their
own expense. This group are treat
ed more like officers than soldiers n
the ranks. For bravery she wa re-
| commended for promotion, head
quarters discovered her sex
In January seven German women
were wounded and placed on cots
side by side in the OuyaZdoff Hospital,
in Warsaw. One of them died from
serious bayonet wounds. All Of them
had well developed muscles lndIcat-
ing that the development probably
came through gymnastlc eXerclscN
| A number of German women We're
in the first line of trenches u the
fighting at the junction Of the bzaTd
river
Russia has any number Of women
fighting in her ranks, and who glory
iii it.
Probably the most distinguished
guished Russian is Nine. Alexander
IKoudasheva, who commands tho
Sixth Ural Cossacks Regiment Sho
has won the ST. Georges Cross Tor
exceptional bravery. She is woman
of brains and culture. Alone she rode
twice on horse back from emma
through Manchuria, Siberia AND f-u-
|ropean Russia to Petrograd. }ter
l"Diary Of a Ride Through Sip'1la
IshOWs her to be a woman OF couraff'
daring and observation.
Another girl who received the 'T-
der of st. George is hish-schooi
girl of Kief, Natalia Tychnini Nhe
lying among the dead and wounded
on the battlefield The AuStrlan9
discovered her sex when she was 'ah-
en- to a hospital base at OpatoW 0he
got her order because the Russo ~
captured Opatow and found her H. 'he
clothes of her sex in which the AUS
trian nurses dressed her. She vs.
sent back to her native town, Wt'N9
people could not do enough to hoh"f
her.
The wife of Colonel Tomilohshat :
fought beside her husband IT lie
East Prussian front at August"""
Once she was five days under IRE
Another time she commanded a Sqa"u
of men as scout leader in the Aug
towo woods. She intercepted I. i
gram from a German cOmmandeT tld'
brought her attention from supefl'i
officers. She has three wounds.
1t is said on good authority ina
eight months of war has resulted u
the Russians giving the Order q =
George to 80 women, all or WHoH
served in the ranks either as fSht
ers or were under fire as Red oroSs