WOUNDED WOMEN SOLDIERS

New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9171, 11 October 1915, Page 6

WOUNDED WOMEN SOLDIERS

“I was very' much surprised (says ai traveller just returned to London from Russia) to find, that one hospital in Pctrograd .was given up to wounded women soldiers. These women, uniformed and wearing the shoulder badges of their regiments, are not in the fighting corps, but in the transport and commissariat services. In recent retreats, however, they on more than one occasion came under the enemy’s fire. ’'The Russians; have employed; a - number of women in ,the supplies seiy. vice of the army. ‘‘ In Petrograd the wounded are everywhere- Under, one curious lation : they arc never allowed; out in the streets singly. There are always < at least two of thorn together, accompanied by a. woman nurse. The commonest sight of any in the capital-was two or three wounded men hobbling along and the nurse holding up the traffic while they crossed the street or helping them up some incline. “ Popular report .places the Russian casualties at a very high figure—three and a half million killed, wounded, and prisoners up to the middle, of July, So far as 1 could learn, this estimate is guesswork. The authorities themselves do not know with any accuracy the re*/ total of the losses.”