New Britain herald., 1915-09-08
John Jay Daly.)

EAa STGnaOeS am OnS LII 6 Envaders, women have play part in war. Today their Eiefly that of the giver of the sufferer of bereave- 1t lis not unlikely that be-
 issover, many a French
 Slav woman will have
 lame on the field of bat
 4en can fight as we'll as
 een amply demonstrated {fne again. In fact, it has they are better fighters
 But there has been little E women of the present day hcir prowess in time of War. ave been many instances in y of the United States and ntrles in which women Eoulder to shoulder with 1e last notable engagement
 3Jnen had anything to do
 n China in 1850, when 4nen went forth to battle esieging the city of Nan x for five years against the of the imperialist troops. ! he combined forces of the fpfre, led by officers of England and France, to ese gallant Chinese women. 2 with the enth usiasm and pf seasoned male warriors.
 0 D women came from var of China and were formed es of 13,000 each, under Eers. Of these, 10000 were Enen who had been thor led in the art of warfare. Fighters in Garrison.
 en who fought in the Tae- Ion, for such it was called, f ed on by a different cause which would effect the |Germanys were they to take |d. In the Taeping rebellion ehgious-political idea which the fighters.
 loo picked women were gar Nankin and they held that bore than five years, while brs, less carefully polished Underwent the drudgery of loats, making earth-works, atteries, and doing the hum 50bs usually attended to by ers. It has been said of no man would have had |la to stick so faithfully at Ntseuen, the leader of the rebellion, was a man of |rth, who tried to enter poll Tailed. Because of his fail lure some government office D an extreme radical. Sh ort- bis he was induced by some k tracts to renounce idola- In he founded the Society Ing, which means universal mot long before the Society bal Peace came into collision Imperial authorities. Hung kly gave out that he wrs h Instrument of God sent to bltary and establish the dy- Universal peace. He assurn- title of Tae-Ping-Wang
 Universal Peace.) He made hief officers princes. To in-
 enthusiasm into the move b-Ping-Wang injected poly
 the scheme and in this way Followers whom he had not kn before. They held that Wang was the son of God |hipped him as such.
 not for the women he band. er, authorities say, Tae-Pins u1d never have lasted as lons With polygamy as one o, Rl ideas in his new religious Wang led the way witl yes. With, immense armie is he had little difficulty T Rg some of the best culti bvinces of China. In all 9
 Wang's many campaign bn were more daring thai
 With women as the back
 is immense army Tae-Ping Id Nankin until 1864, six By when tthe rebellion. wa oppressed by the governmen by foreign army officers. Tn English general, Gordon, at
 called Chinese" Gordor
 nTnental in closing the re he Ancient Amazons.
 the Tae-Ping rebellion i
 Interesting, ina smuch as
 Eclusively what women ca
 called upon, even to the e
 oing upon the battlefield,
 Q most remarkable achiev,
 Fpen have worked in tn,
 line. The original fema
 were. of course, the Am'
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 get the story of the Am;
 om they enumerate in lions, as follows:
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 rina, extirpated by Herc' the Asiatic, the mo ation of all, who founded
 empire along the banks
 he, or Black sea. Themiscyl
 capital. About the year 3; heir queen. Thalestris, soc ich the Asiatic Amazons dt rom history.
 the sScythian Amazons, a di
 nch of the Asiatics. They a
 ae neigh boring Scythiaus. h,