Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1912 — Tribute to Amazons. [ARTICLE]

Tribute to Amazons.

The magnificent example of toe women of Dahomey should be made widely known wherever their more civilized sisters are to be found struggling for their rights. Frederick Martyn of the French foreign legion, who fought In the recent Dahomey campaign, tells us emphatically that "the female of the species is more deadly than the male.” The Senegalese tirailleurs were attacked by the Amazons, and Mr. Martyn says that “any one inclined to sympathize with the Ama>zons on account of their sex and to look upon toe Combat between them and our men as unequal, may take it from me that their sympathy would be misplaced. These young women were far and away the best men in the Dahomeyan army, and woman to man were quite a match for any of us. They fought like unchained demons, and If driven into a corner, did not disdain to use their teeth and nails.” It may be an error of policy to make these facts known, and thus to stimulate a militancy already vigorous enough.