Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1915-01-27
LEADS HER GIRL
= WARRIORS IN
B0LDExPL0HS
Eiqhteen-Year-0ld Polish Maiden
=. Wins Officers Rank in Aus
trian Army. :
ALONE RouTs so OF FOE
off1cer'o Tent Plundered 40 He sleeps
-~Saw Her Brother Executed
colIapses Only When Re-
treat 10 Ordered.
Nv HARRY HANSEN.

Correspondent of the Chicago Daily
!. News0
Vienna, Austria.-This is the story
Of Stanislawa Ordynska, just as 1t has
come to me, with scarce the change Of
word. II it reads more like a page
out of Dumas than out Of the book OF
human experience, If it seems improb
able that so much that is thrilling, ORA
matte and adventurous should have
been crowded into the soldier career
of an eighteen-year-old Polish girl
then I 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 1vangorod.
And II this evidence will not sutfice
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 Stadthalterel
Just step below the Hofburg OF the
sovereign.
Wins Three Stars and Bar.
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 q
chair beside her, cot lies gray Aus
TRAN uniform with three stars and q
bar across the collar-the insignia Of
"feldwebel" or sergeant as we should
say in America. For that is the ranh
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 hel
heart-to fight for Poland against the
yoke Of Russia. -,
, Stanislawa Ordynska was born II
Warsaw, but her father was an Aus
trian Pole from Lucka, near Zakopan1
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 1868, and
for years he told his three sons and
his one daughter that one day they
would be called upon to strike a bio"
for Poland.
"You must fight for Poland will
your last drop OF blood, with the last
breath you draw" he said. Ill. So
=. Much Of this was vague to Stanis
lava. Three years ago she Joined q
Polish. society in Warsaw and soor
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 wers
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