Show WOMEN AS MEN IN ARTLY Disguised Many Have Served For Months Without Discovery Chicago Tribune Military records contain quite a number of instances In which women disguised as men have entered the army and distinguished themselves on the battlefield their sex not being discovered for many years afterward af-terward In 1872 a soldier who had enlisted under the name of Paul Daniel attracted attract-ed the attention of a ergeant ihile drilling a body of recruits at Parts mouth At the conclusion of the parade pa-rade he sent for Daniel and stated his suspicions In regard to the recruits sex On seeing that the game was up Daniel confessed that he was a female and burst into tears when informed that she could no longer continue with the regiment It appeared that her husband after getting through a large fortune had fled to Germany where lie had enlIsted and his wife performed the deception in the hope that as a soldier she might be dispatched for service In that country and thus dis cover her unfaithful partner A most remarkable woman was found to be serving as an ordinary soldier In a certain German corps toward the end of the last century Her sex was re vealed owing to a false charge of theft being nmde against her after she had been Performing her military duties of the regiment for over six months Be fore this she had served in a regiment of the cuirassiers for two years in one regiment receiving a wound in the arm and afterwards joining the grenadles Being captured by the enemy she man aged to escape and promptly enlisted in a regiment of volunteers and but for the unfortunate charge referred to mfgh have spent her life in military pursuits Iii 1769 a woman made a determined effort to enlist in the East India corn pany forees Although she was dis geised perfectly as a man hertoice and her manner gave her away When the magistrate told her that her applica tion was hopeless she burst into tears saying that this was her only chance of seeing her husband again who was then serving in India A woman who boasted that she had a unique career died in 17S2 at Popular For the greater part of her life she had served as an ordinary seaman oa several menofwar where her true sex was not once suspected As Opposed to these women who have fought In the ranks there are no less than eight women colonels in the Ge man army today several of whom draw their pay regularly They are the empress em-press or Germany the dowager empress em-press widow of the late Frederick Charles of Prussia the Queen Regent Sophia the duchess of Edinburgh the duchess of Connaught and Queen Vie toria S |