Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-13
ALONE ROUTs so OF FOE
Officers Tent Piundered as He Sleeps
Saw Her Brother Executed
coIIapses Only When a Re
treat Is Ordered.
BY HARRY HANSEN.

out of Dumas than out OF the book o
human experience, II 1t 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 if this evidence will not suffice
| 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 a step below the Hofburg of the
sovereign.
Wins Three stars and a Ear.
She is only a frail creature, this girl
of eighteen years, but with 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
trian uniform with three stars and a
bar across the collar-the insignia OF
a "feldwebeT' 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
is 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
trian Pole from Lucka, near Zakopani
He removed to Warsaw to take charge
OF iron works and there his spirit re
Trains Daughter for Fight.
AS a young man he sympathized
with the revolutionaries of 1868, and
for years he told his three sons and
Ills OlAt OduBllti llldl OliC hdy bhOy
would be called upon to strike a 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 rap
through the minds of the Poles.
Father Sent to Siberia.
Ordynskas feelings we're not un-
known TO the Russians. In January
Of this year there was a roundup OF
Polish sympathizers in Warsaw.
Ordynska ard 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.
Stanislawa and her brothers went
to Cracow and Immediately joined a
body OF 1900 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
enrolled enthusiastically for service.
Three Polish legions marched out OF
Cracow August 7. Among them were
IS young women, including Stanislawa,
who had volunteered for reconnoiter'
ing and patrol duty, in spite of tho
fact that they we're fully aware Of the
terrible fate that might be theirs
should they be caught by the Russian
soldiers. Every girl carried a saber
and revolver, and in each saddle bag
was the costume Of a peasant woman.
Under Fire in Regular Army.
At Mniechow the girls came for the
first time under fire; they pushed for
ward bravely with the legions. AT
Kielce their experience was repeated.
Here they became a part Of the army
of Danh and took the oath Of allie
glance to the emperor and the flag OF
Austria.
They were detailed to accompany
the command of Field Marshal Lieu
tenant Durski. For days they had a
share in the fight waging at Kielce.
and when the Austrians pushed the
Russians back step by step until the
enemy was forced to evacuate its posi-
tion a feyerish enthusiasm seized the
little soldier girls.
Il threw myself down on the earth
and tried to embrace It with my arms
and kissed the dear, old fatherland
again and again." said Stanislawa.
Saw Brother Exeeutsd.
Then she suddenly became grave.
llLIL...l 49, Il q. l.