RUSSIAN WOMAN SOLDIER.
DESIRE TO FIGHT IN FRANCE
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 5.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 13.
News from a Pacific port states that Marie Leontiva Botchkareva, leader of the Battalion of Death, has arrived from Russia, and is going to France to fight the Germans, expecting to die on the battlefield. She crossed Siberia disguised as a peasant and took refuge on a British warship in Vladivostok Harbour.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16850, 15 May 1918, Page 7
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72RUSSIAN WOMAN SOLDIER. New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16850, 15 May 1918, Page 7
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