Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-02-12
LEADS HER GIRL
WARRIORS IN
: BOLDEXPLO|TS
Eighteen Year-0Id Polish Maiden
Wins Officers Rank in Aus
trian Army.
ALONE R0UTS so OF FOE
OffieePS Tent PIundered 40 He Sleeps
Saw Her Brother Executed
coliapses Only When a Re-
treat 10 Ordered.
ALONE R0UTS so OF FOE
BY HARRY HANSEN.

~ VAhhr UANS6N.
correspondent of the Chicago Daily
News)
Vienna, Austria.-This is the story
OF Stanislawa Ordynska, Just as it has
come to me. with scarce the change OF
a word. II 1t reads more like a page
out OF Dumas than out of the book Of
human experience. II it seems improb-
able that SO much that is thrilling, dra-
matte and adventurous should have
been crowded into the soldier career
OF an eighteen-year-old Polish girl,
then have only to commend you hum
bly, to DR.. Raimund Schwarzwald, ply
stefan In charge of a temporary Red
Cross hospital in the Sensengasse, who
was the first to care for the little girl
after her nervous breakdown on the
battlefield. near Ivangorod.
And II this evidence will not suffice
i beg you to inquire Of the Arch
duchess Maria Theresa of the house
OF Hapsburg. now a simple. sweet
voiced. Red Cross nurse, in the dainty
blue and white uniform, or to lead You
to the cot Of the little patriot herself
In the hospital of the Stadthalterei,
just step below the Hofburg of the
sovereign.
Wins Three stars and q Bar.
She is only frail creature. this girl
Of eighteen years. but witfE dark eyes
that keep asking questions of the
walls and the windows and the gray.
colorless morning Just beyond. On a
chair beside her cot lies a gray Aus
TRAN uniform with three stars and a
bar across the collar-the insignia of
q "feldwebel" or sergeant as we should
say In America. For that is the rank
which this girl has attained in the
few months of the war, and today she
IL eager to don the uniform once more
and to give vent to the feeling that
burns like an unceasing fire in her
heart-to fight for Poland against the
yoke Of Russia.
Stanislawa Ordynska was born in
Warsaw, but her father was an Aus
TRAN Pole from Lucka, near Zakopani
He removed to Warsaw to take charge
OF iron works and there his spirit re-
VOTED against the methods of Russia.
Trains Daughter for Fight.
As a young man he sympathized
with the revolutionaries of 1863, and
for years he told his three sons and
his one daughter that one day they
would be called upon to strike blow |
for Poland.
You must fight for Poland with |
your last drop Of blood. with the last |
breath you draw" he said.
Much Of this was vague to Stanis-
lava. Three years ago she Joined a
Polish society in Warsaw and soon
she understood the deep current Of in.
ternational feeling and hatred that ran
through the minds of the Poles.
father Sent to Siberia.
Ordynska's feelings were not un-
known to the Russians. In January
Of this year there was a roundup of
Polish sympathizers in Warsaw.
Ordynska and his eldest son were
seized and sent as criminals to the
mines Of Siberia. Ordynska had just
time to give 5000 rubles each to Stan
islawa and her two brothers and ad.
wise them to fee. The mother deter
mined to stay in Warsaw.
Stanitlawa and her brothers went
to Crachw and Immediately Joined a
body ef 400 Russian Poles, among
them 200 women and girls, who daily
exercised in the ART of arms at the
Oleanderplatz.
When war was declared the Poles