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the unit at l-emberg after losing her only son in the war. Her hus- band, also a physician, is professor at Cracow University. The colonel is q pretty woman of quiet, gracious manner. who looks younger than her thirty-five years. She has q strong, refined face with sugges- tion of humor always ready, but she looks every inch soldier in her uniform of American khaki with three decorations for yalor pinned on her breast.)
 Warsaw. June 21-PoIand's Wo- mems Battalion, of which the world heard so much in the last two years, is being denobilized. The ma jority of it's 3,000 members are re- turning to domestic pursuits after more than two years of military service. A small percentage will re, main in government service as in structors of military education for women ill schools which are being set up for them in Warsaw, Cracow and Posen Their casualties have been little more than one hundred We lost forty killed at Lemberg and about fifty at Wilma. Now that peace prospects are so bright for Poland our task is done, and most of my soldiers will go to their homes, those that have them, to be good wives and mothers. as women should.
 It will interest Americans to know that two members of our battalion married members of General Haller's Legion of Polish Americans, who came over to help in the critical days of the war and have returned with them to make their homes in the United States. have never been to Alnericca, but know all about it, because l am a great read CT, and I know that they will find great consolation in new prosper ous country that has not been swept by armies
 Fifty of our women soldiers have married while in the service. If they married soldiers they continued in the battalion in preference to re- turning home. as long as their hus- bands were also in the army. All those who have married have re- turned to domestic pursuits. In fact when our demobilization scheme is completed all of the 5000 members of the battalion will have left the snl, is still doing duty at Wilma.
 Formed originally for the defense of Lemberg against the Ukrainians it was not our intention to serve so stances of war made it imperative It has been a pleasure thus to serve our country. and many of us are 10th to lay aside our uniforms. The at the barracks here is the battal- ions pride. Ii does not want to leave the service. Many of it's members will go into the training schools
 Our women-soldiers love discipline It has been just as severe as in the mems regiments. In fact. it has been the army's experience that women take a soldiers life more seriously than men and are more punctual and have greater sense of fidelity than men.
 That is one of the reasons for the training g-school idea. The govern ment has been so impressed with the value of women in war that it has been decided to establish these schools for the military training of women. They wil be set up in Warsaw. Cracow and Posen
 Already we have received 300 ap- plications for admission to the schools from the battalion members living in Lemb berg. where the legion was formed. More are coming in. daily from other parts of Poland. It shows the splendid spirit of the Polish women. who, more than the men, are responsible for keeping aiight the fire of patriotism in the hearts of the Polish youth through all our years of oppression under foreign governments.
 These schools will provide the necessary military training for women as officers in the sanitary corps, the telegraph, telephone and educational branches of the army. In other words. an effort will be made to fill all these branches of the service with women, so that in the event Of war more men can be snaxea for the fighting line It is