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RUSSIAN WOMEN SOLDIERS AT WORK 



Although they have recently acquired skill in firing a rifle and attacking with a bayonet, 

 these Russian girls of the "Battalion of Death" have not forgotten how to manipulate pots 

 and pans. 



gladly?" he asked mildly. "Well, then," 

 I queried, "were they willing to go?" 



For a time he hesitated and then said, 

 "They were not willing to go, yet they 

 went willingly." which exactly represents 

 the attitude of the Russians toward the 

 war at its beginning. For the first six 

 months they were fighting a battle for 

 the Tsar between his government and 

 that of the Kaiser. After that the war 

 shifted to a combat between the German 

 army and the Russian army, for the 

 peasant of the East took grave exception 

 to the Teutonic method of conducting 

 warfare. 



Day by day and month by month, as 

 wounded went home to tell of German 



frightfulness, and as refugees by the mil- 

 lion circulated through the villages of 

 Russia, the feeling against the Germans 

 became more and more bitter and the de- 

 sire in the hearts of the peasants to see 

 them beaten at all costs became more and 

 more profound. It has taken perhaps 

 two years for this feeling to develop 

 among the peasants of Russia, and it is. 

 I sincerely believe, the feeling through- 

 out the nation, or it certainly was prior 

 to the revolution, before the crafty Ger- 

 man propaganda came to befog the issue 

 in the untutored peasant mind. 



During these early days of the war an 

 efficient government on the part of the 

 old regime would have made the power 



