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NO.1RUSS HEROINE WAS A GUERRILLA

Tania Missed International Women’s Day Rally Because Nazis Put Her to Death for Daring Feats;

Dying Moments Inspired Soviet.

By A. T. STEELE Copyright, 1042, by The Indianapolis Times and the Chicago Daily News

MOSCOW, March 27.—When outstanding Soviet women gathered recently at mass meetings throughout the coun{try to hear speeches, adopt resolutions and celebrate inter-

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national women’s day, the best-known heroine of the RussoGerman war was not there. She was a guerrilla. She was called Tania. And she is dead.

Tania is the Edith Cavell her martyrdom has been glorified in the Russian press. A dreadful photograph of her wounded body hanging from a German gallows has been widely reprinted. Posthumously, she has been granted the highest decoration within the power of the Soviet government to grant — that of “hero of the Soviet Union.” Songs and poems have been written about Tania. Her schoolgirl writings, her diaries, her notebooks, have A been searched out and pub A. T. Steele lished. There is no doubt that moving stories written about Tania and her dying moments have done as much to deepen Russian hatred for the Nazis as any single incident in| this war. | Tania’'s real name was 2Zoia| Kosmodemianskaya. When she be- | came a partisan (guerrilla) she | took an assumed name, as all Russian guerrillas do in order to confuse the enemy and protect their relatives. She was an 18-year-old school

girl in Moscow when the war broke. | She decided to join the guerrillas and, so the story goes, spurned the advice of friends who tried to persuade her to become a nurse in-| stead. Her guerrilla career was! short but spectacular.

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Packing up her knapsack, Tania left Moscow early in November, penetrated the German lines with a |

on the village of Petrischevo in which three German - occupied houses and a barnful of German horses were set ablaze. Several nights later, Tania entered upon her biggest and final adventure. The Russians, it is claimed, got the full story from the villagers and a German prisoner when they recaptured the village in January. : Here, according to official Soviet accounts, is the story they related: Clad in a fur jacket, quilted

small group of partisans and par-| ticipated in a successful night raid |

of Soviet Russia. For weeks

a pitiful sight when the inquisition was finished, say villagers. There was a bruise on her forehead and blood on her hands and feet. But still her only reply to questions was: “T do not know; I won't tell.” The next morning, the story continues, a gallows was prepared on the village square and the villagers were ordered out to witness the

"| carrying out of the penalty which

awaits every guerrilla. Tania was to serve as an object lesson and warning.

Not Afraid to Die

Soldiers escorted her through the streets. From her neck were suspended two bottle of gasoline and a board bearing the single word, “partisan.” At the execution ground she was obliged to mount two stacked boxes and the noose was fitted over her head while the villagers gasped, sullenly silent.

But Tania was not silent. She

l was defiant to the end.

“Comrades,” she is quoted as hav=ing said. ‘Don’t look despondent. I am not afraid to die. They will hang me but I am not alone. There are 200,000,000 of us. I will be avenged, Victory will be ours. Goodby, comrades. Don’t be afraid. Stalin is with us. Stalin will come.” Her life, it is related, ended a

moment. later when the boxes were {kicked from under her. For nearly

a month she hung there to be finally cut down and buried by the villagers under a birch tree out-

| side the village.

CHINESE GET WINGS AT U. S. AIR SCHOOL

PHOENIX, Ariz, March 26 (U.

|P.).—China’s first class of Ameri-

can-trained pilots, products of tne |lend-lease plan, graduate today from the Luke field army air corps training school. Air corps officials said presentation of the coveted wings of second lieutenants in the Chinese air force would mark only the beginning of an extensive training program in this country for Chinese airmen, The Chinese cadets were veteran fliers before they arrived in the United States, having had 200 hours in the air at their own air force cadet school at the east end of the Burma road where the weather was poor for flying and the Jap-

leathers. trousers and felt boots, and equipped with a revolver and knapsack containing bottles of gasoline, the girl guerrilla made her way alone into Petrischevo village and broke into a German military storehouse. She was about to set fire to the building when the German sentry surprised her.

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Mrs. Lelia Wimmer will be in|stalled as worthy matron of Nettie Refused to Talk | Ransford chapter, O. E. S. at 8 p.m. There was a struggle, Tania was |lOMOITOW in the Masonic temple, 42d captured. It was not until she had st. and College ave. Other officers to been taken to a nearby peasant’s| be installed at the public ceremonies house that the Germans discovered are: that their captive was a girl.| Perle Wimmer, worthy patron; They plied her with questions, re- | Mrs. Alma Clark, associate matron; sorted to violent measures in their Frank E. Thornburg, associate pa= efforts to extract useful informa-|tron; Mrs. Bertha McDowell, secreé= tion. But all she would admit was tary; Miss Alma Gebhardt, trea= that her name was Tania and |surer; Mrs. Vera Cones, conductress; that she was from Moscow. and Mrs. Helen Long, associate con= The tall, slim, dark-eyed girl was|ductress.

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