Show AUSTRIAN WOMEN orI ON THE FIRING LINE Dressed Like Men Help in Digging Diggin Trenches an and 0 Other Work Wark Special Cable Cabo to The I ROME Dec 2 Women Women are ate now being sent right Into the firing line by the Austrians At t least that is wl what at an A Austrian prisoner captured during Italy's ItalY advance in the Carso Caiso says He declares that his Is own wife was shot while digging trenches on the G Galician front Old m mn men n and women won wo- wo men Anen n en h he said are sent into front line to do tasks that hat are not considered too hard for tor them such as trench digging food distributIon cleaning firearms picking up the empty shells and all the things that are left on a a battlefield including the tho uniforms of of dead soldiers none of which are wasted The dead men are stripped l b by these women and old men and burled buried absolutely nude Their Theil clothes are sent to the base disinfected mended up and used foi for fresh troops or those coming out of ot hospital The rhe prisoner affirms that over women are now mobilized in the Austrian firing tiring line inc They are dressed in male attire attire Many l have already been killed by the Russians The same authority recounts recounts' that army chaplains are no longer used for spiritual help alone They must fight tight dig trenches and help in other ways if too old to carry arms The field hospitals even contain no men attendants these all having been sent to fight Women Vom n take charge of every Austrian hospital They are aro aided by convalescents Special women's women's wo wo- mens men's barracks' barracks have become needful on many p parts of f the firing line Une There are many scandals and those men who have been convicted have I been heavily punished whether the offenders were privates or officers |