FIGHTING HEROINES.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 March 1916, Page 5

FIGHTING HEROINES.

SISTER OF CHARITY WHO RALLIED A REGIMENT. -v 1 Paris, January 12. )' M. Ludovie Naudeau, correspondent of i the Jaurnal at Petrograd, cites remark- ~i able examples of feminine heroism. " & Seeing a regiment waver on the,deitll ■ ! of the colonel and ten of its officers, * sister, of charity rallied' the-' men, brought them back to the trenches, and fell mortally wounded. ' . Another sister of charity up to the very last minute tended her wounded in the village evacuated by the Russian h rearguard. , "If in Western countries," !hr says, "women appear to us to be weak crettures, there are fewer divergencies bs; ■■■, tween the two sexes in Russia, whew " fewer distinctions are made and wher* i the men are not so sure of belonging J to the stronger sex. )| "Many Russian women who are very i well educated and who have attended '? the universities along with the pien : have developed a masculine mentality - and are indifferent to appearances, thelc . >•" main study not being to look pretty, 3 but t° be natural J "In many Russian families, brothers -{ and sisters are accustomed to live on "'J a footing of comradeship, consequently 3 the presence of a woman among $ body,. 1of troops is not such a matter for surf prise. Resulting from these causes, mill* ',3 tary feminism has developed in Russia, and women undergo their sanguinary j apprenticeship with enthusiasm." 1