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Show PAYS II TRIBUTE 10 RUSSIAN wra Mis. Emmeline Pankhurst Refers Especially to Those Who Entered the Army. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) LONDON, Nov. 22. Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the suffragette leader, who recently returned from Russia, found 'much that is hopeful in the situation existing ex-isting when she was there. In an interview in-terview on her arrival - In London she said: The great mass of the Russian people are simple, honest and gentle, with a genuine hatred of Prussian militarism. They only need leading. If some way can be found of throw- ing off the influences that are preventing pre-venting the proper organization of the country, and the patriotic element gets the upper hand, Russia will cease to play the passive role and become a real power in the war. Everywhere in the turmoil one discerns dis-cerns the hand of the German agent. You cannot lose faith in a country coun-try that can produce such people. The iirst lot of women soldiers who went to the front and fought so well had only six weeks' training. There were 2000 recruits for the women's battalions in Moscow when I was there, and 1500 In Petrograd, apart from those at the front. The leader, Madame Butchkareff, Is a peasant woman with a fine ideal of patriotic duty. There are women of all classes in the ranks. They were at first quartered in an old barracks, bar-racks, where they had to sleep on planks, but they endured all the discomforts dis-comforts witli cheerfulness. I spoke to some of their wounded In the hospitals. hos-pitals. They were very young. One woman had by her bedside the helmet hel-met of a German soldier whom she had killed. After Madame Butchkareff Butch-kareff came out of the hospital she - told me that she Intended to organize organ-ize her force to restore order, but she was sent, with 200 of her soldiers, to the Riga front just before the Kor-niloff Kor-niloff trouble. |