LONELY ENGLISH HEROINE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 234, 28 June 1920, Page 5

LONELY ENGLISH HEROINE

DOCTOR, NURSE, AND UNDERTAKER. The story of an Englishwoman's heroIsm in Bolshevist Eussia is being related jvitb admiration by refugees from that country who hnve recently arrived in London (states the "Daily Mail"). They tell 'how sinco 1917, cut off from her relatives and friends, Mrs. Violet Froom, the wife of nn engineer in tho Urals, has stood by her voluntary post 1 of British almoner, in Petrograd. ,Sho has been ambassador, tonsiil, (lector, lawyer, family adviser, universal provider, end even parson. Sho haa nursed the sick, 'begged money' from everyone to provide «'!* it food could be obtained to nourish them, and has. read the burial service over the dead. Not only that, ibut she has also rescued the bodies of English.people from the cellars and warehouses in which they had been thrown and given them Christian burial. Tlio risk she has lun can be imagined from one of many incidonts. She heard that an Englishman had died and that his body had been thrown, into a warehouse, with hundreds of other dead because tho Bolsheviks refused to dig graves. She obtained permission to find tho body, but was told she must tako an escort, as the bodies were in charge of Chinese and tho Bolshevist ennmissary would not answer for her safety. She said sho preferred to go alone, but eventually she took the guard nnd recovered the body, mounting the soldiers over it until sho could get a coffin and bury it according'to the rites of the English Chmrch. The latest information bought toy refugees ■' is that Mrs. Froom is still in Petrogrnd and is still working for the old and infirm peonle of English descent who are unable to leave Russia.