Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1917 — Women Warriors Make Fine Debut In Battle Action. [ARTICLE]

Women Warriors Make Fine Debut In Battle Action.

Geneva, July 26.—A dispatch dated July 22, printed by the Buda Pest A Zest, records the first contact of Austrian troops with Russian women battalions. The fighting took place on the Bryzezany front and the dispatch says the fought with extraordinary bravery, counter attacking fiercely. The same dispatch ascribes to Russian prisoners the statement that M. Kerensky, the Russian premier and minister of war and marine, was sevely wounded in the arm near Brzez-, any. A Russian infantry regiment, says the dispatch, refused to fight and retreated, whereupon the Russian artillery turned their guns upon It. M. Kerensky in au automobile, dashed in between the two forces and succeeded in stopping the slaughter but himself was wounded.