GIRLS IN THE FIRING LINE
' AN EXTRAORDINARY STORYPETROGRAD, Jan\ 9. There are several well-authenticated' stories" of women serving in the Russian army. :-g ■ -The- most extraordinai-y concerns 12 _.loscow school ' girls, who at the be-, ginning- of the war purchased uniformsand boarded a troop train. They reached Lemberg, where ' the< soldiers welcomed.them a3 comrades and conceale'dth'eir >-identity. Officers heard of their-! story "• and ordered that they be sent back, but they pleaded to foe allowed to remain, offering to get their hair cut. The regiment passed the Carpathians, the girls- sharinrr all its horrors. They admit that they sometimes - blubbered' %vhen "German shells fell, but add jthat even, -the men were afraid. - • '•? '' ■ -'One girl, aged fifteen, was killed- oy a shell,and others were wounded. One a corporal: and. .decorated .with the Gross of St. George. • The girls were finally persuaded to leave the firing line and act, as -nurses in hospitals. ■" ■, ■ , ■ , . /
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue XLIX, 11 January 1916, Page 5
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