Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-10-21
WOMEN IN RUSSIAN ARMY
So Many, Whole Hospital Is
Needed for Them.
Oae Proricscd to &c the CpIopcI OF n
Cc.aarN Rcgimcnt-GirI In tho
Flying Corp-Othcrs Dccosu.,
cd for GniIantry.

prisons, ANA among these wo.ndcd thcre
na"e tecn discovered so many women that
one hospital in tho i}i.ssian capital hl.,
been set aaltc For hem
| II mas been known Tor -one months that
several hundred women we-e prooab,y
/ lighting Shoulder 60 shoulder vt.h their
husbands and brothers but the actunl
nurahor IS ve"y nuch larger than was
! suspected.
IN" commandor-in-chics admitted them
to tn" ranks in various REGIMENTS from
! me beginning, 50 & Is announced now.
and there was no necessity " cono-alinR
their sax If they were willing to DC as
signed 20 dnty in the transport ara cor,-
miss'try serv,cca and t. kco2 away iron,
the fighting limo.
! nut as tHoy 1nw tho mon fall I, th,
! regiment tie women rushed corwal~, ard
nIlti Up the gaps, hftcrwlrd heinr al
I loved tn keep the position Won With %
much BRAVERY.
! MApD oFFFChES FOR BRAVERY.
Il number Of them hayc accn promote.
ard have become run-Hcjpei officers ocd
others hnvc been decorated Tor ,raIlantry.
with the Military Cross Of st. George
me youngest perhaps IS an ,S-year-old
wilma schoolgirl, Kira !'ashklrown. who
enlisted Under the ramc OF Nicholas
Fop'n Her feet became frozen. but she
continued FIGHTING until She vas vyoundc,i
ana taken 20 tho fold Hospital. whcro =.
was discovered that she was Il woman.
Alexandra Nokovteea also enlisted ur-
'.,. go '''''"''''u H',.r Ill inc IA COS
sack regiment 10 which nor husband i-,.
lonEed. tnd in which he mad fought in thc
/ Russian-Japanese war
/ t,,.. ,,u,,..'i,.s '''','" VICE Ia tho
.s''' .'''''' S.'' s"'W'd s"ch
/ '"''"' 'o"'"-' mat she vas
! ,,.,,.' ''''''.'" 10 "e'o'ne Il.
a,,, Nv, S'N i''' '''n -0pnd
! IT, 'i'N '"9 S'rNe" ever
w.
NV "'u'''iS are "eFol'I To nor ana
nm ~ '",'h can Sl' a morse with more
o"'r man ,,o Or can 'h""r' longer hours
-, '''' 9'''''' 0"e was porn IN the rral
.nou'''''s ana spent most OF her life n
'',r ,!'."
= ...-,...
-. w. oI''I"tIi'N around Urodno'
- '''' o'9'''''' ''I' JoI'H"lScf.
''o '.'''H' '99lS'""'e TO mo
a,a,,1, =, '''' 80 '''o vas reg "l"''F m
80 ''' ''7'''''i,' Wearing us uhl-
"'.o ,.''' '''' '''"' ne was an eN-
>, ''1'' ''"'' Il" I''N lpUNht uhder
i''''''"h"'i'i'' ia inc Mahchlrian
campaign.
Her comrades have chrstened her
yellow Martha" on account of her hair.
and yellow Martha" has to her credit,
-. '''' must "i'''''"' H'R""' ACTS OF
Seeing the standard bearer being sur
rounded by Germans, she rushed to his
assistance, ana although he was killed.
she secured the flag by shooting two Ger
mans who We're attempting to seize the
flag.
In the Russian Flying Corps operating
in Poland. girl from the Pertograd high
school was hero She flew over tho
Austrian army until her machine was fir
ed upon. She was wounded in the arm
ana leg but she kept control Of her aero
plane until she had landed in the Russian
lines. when she collapsed. She is now in
the hospital at kioff.
REVOLUTIONARY ANLAZONS.
AS Russia was the first corntrv whers
women were given control over their IN.
herited property, and as petrorrod hos
had for some wears the lorres, medical
college for women in Eurona Il &c ro+
stranea that ,vo,,o, bo,., .a,.4 .,
active mart in the military cop,r3ic,
In all the revolutionarv ,,ovonerts ~,
women students have beor moro dare-a,.
Gus perhaps to the povernmen+ tbor ,ho
mon. II is believed that the majority ~