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VALOUR OF CZECH WOMEN.
TRUE TO TRADITIONS OF RACE HEROINES.
EQUALITY OF THE SÉXES.
We know all about the remarkable worki of the Czecho-Slovak men; how they have by their unconquerable Valour re-estab lished the entity of their nation, but little has been written about the Czecho-Slovnk women.
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OUR LONDON LETTER.
THE BEGINNING OF THE LAST STAGE OF ARMAGEDDON.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]
LONDON, November 4th. The English are a queer race. The wech has brought us news of the capito- lation of Tarkey and the break-up of Austria-Hungary; in Germany the Kaiser has been making a last desperate effort to escape abdication; Fuck and Haig are driving the Huns still further back towards the Rhine; and the Italians,
with the assistance of British
of rest and cheer for the men after Venetian Plain.
the war. This does not mean, however, Yet there are no outward and visible that they are indifferent
the political TIIMANOEK signs of jubilation here at all these life of their people and the great events
which wonderful tidings. People would appear Wh: are now making history. Fron
roin THILATSAP to be more concerned about the ravages pre-historic times is preserved an interest. of influenan than the dowalall of Em- ing story about a war between the Czecho-
They read in the papers with
Slovak women and the men. The lendor pires. grave anxiety that hundreds of folk are of the women was a famous beroine named dying with the "An," which is of a type
Vlasta, and her lieutenant was Sharaka, that baffes the doctors, and the fact
a girl of great beauty and charm.
led by (tirad, A fierce battle escapes cosoment that the British Army ensued in whieli neither side won the vic- on the Western front has sustained some or so the women decided to try to thing like 150,000 casualties in the past gain an advantage by strategy. Sharaka
ione companie
troops, have smashed their foen on the places with the iden of making them
month.
men were
bade her
in the forest throat ind her to a tree
But this composure in Ince of great
which Ctirad would happenings is, of course, only a surface
They did so, and Ctirad, as was view of things, though it is accurate expected, at he walked through the forest enough us far as it goes. While the snw the beautiful girl apparently country is not making merry over the abandoned ba her downfall of our enemies, and there is no or ringing of belle, there waving of is undoubtedly heartfelt gladness and thankfulness that the
overcome by com treas, was immediate anions and in dis passion and love for her. So when she requested him to blow the horn which
sented by Kaiseriamga of evil repte lay at his feet, he obeyed, whereupon the
girl warriors, hidden in
in the bushes, rushed
approaches
says the
its inevitable and rightroos doom. A WEEK OF HISTORY
Whatever is yet to come. Daily Telegraph and there is much before the colossal drama of the war's ending is played out, we shall scarcely Bee suck another week of history as this which now draws to a close. The crash of two great Empires still gumbs the
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The Czecho-Bluvaks believe this story a myth but see in it an indication to be a mys thai their nation
ion was already conscious,” even in pre-historic days, of the equality of youen and men, red this story has become to then a symbol of the freedom of their women
STORY OF WOMAN BILER. Apulber story which has come down ie that of Libusha, a woman who ruled the Czecho, probably in the eighth century. She was beloved by the whole nation
of her
It just and wise rule. LA
because that her marriage was broug
Bulgaria ment a month agu, Fox vanishing into oblivion. His son Boris, effeminate and weak, who was Kuddenly percbed upon the vacant throne: like a pasteboard marionette has follow- ed his father, and the office of kingship over the Bulgare is being replaced by pensant Republic. Concurrently with this latest development in the Balkans, conies the unconditional surrender of Turkey, and the dismemberment of the
about in rather a curious manner, ramshackle Empire" of Austria-Hungary conflict between two brothers, she wan The Emperor Karl fled the capital, taking with him, according to one report, 14 railway trucks laden with furnitude and jewels all his household gods, in fact; and thus we see in the character of a fugitive, smitten with mortal fear, the heir of a dynasty which was old before there was a Hobenzollern in Branden;" burg.
NEARING THE END).
in a
to condemu the elder, who cried
wrath out in his wrath Wor to the birds into whose nests serpents crawl, and wee to the men whom a waman rule." These words so affected Libusha titat she gave up her sovereignty and married Premysl who became the glorious forefather of the
WAR
the Czecho Bovak nation destroyed and the people led almost to There remains, therefore, as I write, the verge of death, the women became only Germany with which to deal. Per the guardians of the symbols of their they nationality the language which haps before this letter reaches you our
Only chief enemy will have gone under, with carefully and secretly preserved us is expected-a crash coninzentrale to in this way was it possible for the Czecho Blovak nation to resurrect itself in the the soaring height of pan German amideteenth century. bitions. Thus the end of Armageddon 10f the women litterateurs of the race, draws nigh. We are spectatorg here, Bozena Nemcova, although not very well near the centre of things, of the last known, was probably the greatest.
She as Mr. Asquith said the other was of a frank, sincere, intensely patriolic night in Glasgow, in one of the greatest nature and her words show a prophetic drains of history," adding quite truly, vision of the future when she whole :- that the war upon which the curtain ช about to fall has been unique and supreme; it is not too much to say that it has cleansed and purified the whole atmosphere of the world." GERMANY TO AUSTRIA.
act,
"I would like to be born once more 100 years from now when the whole world and the women also will be free" Har words gain significance from the fact that she was born in 1820 She also wrote:
It rests with the woman to restore the
The Germans are surpassing themselves lost paradise of mankind. It is a price
in vituperation of Austria, and it is less peart which lies at the bottom of
natural in the circumstances.
bor own heart and she must enter to flud It temp it.y
a quotation in passing from Shakespeare, who, as has often been said, knew every-
WOMAN IN WAR WORK.
The real ability of the Crecho-Slovak
thing, and seems to have anticipated what women is characterised by the election of
has happened. In King John" (Act Mrs. Vikova Kaneticka as deputy to the
3, scene ) he wrote:
◊ Austria.
Thou little valiant, great in villainy!
Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!
Czech Diet in Prague. Her election, how.
ever, was not recognised by the Austrian vernment which, as they did not knowledge the equal rights of the Ans
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Been sworn my soldier bidding me depend During the present war the Czecho Upon thy stars, thy Furtune and they Slovak women have had to face a serious
teat. The
men were compelled to enter the Austrian army and the majority them ther wont over to the Allies or wounded and killed. Only a small The influenza epidemic, to which refer- portion of the men remained at home. enoe has been made, is raging in town
But this group, oppose the Austrian- at the very outbreak of and country, claiming victims alike in the war,
mansion and the cottage.
Government in every possible The Hungary way.
They refused to subscribe to war microbe responsible for this manifesta- tion of the malady is said to be of a more loans, they did all they could to prevent the export of food supplies from the virulent type than any that has ever
Cacho-Blovak
they markets
arranged appeared. It is an enemy alien in every strikes and explosions in the munition country in Europe; and America is not factories, they spread propaganda among As our authorities never seem to do the the men who had to leave for the front.
Their wives fulfilled every demand of obvious until an emergency arises, one the
crisis. They not result of the visitation is to impel the occasion of food requisition but also help- only resisted every Government to regard with favour the ed the Allied prisoners. Many of the establishment of a Department of Medica) Czechq-Blovik women were bayoneted by Research, with scientific investigatora
German
soldiers because they gave food charge at salaries sufficiently tempting to to Russian prisoners, and when the girla attract men whose ability would other of the High School in Bruan embroidered wise carry them to Harley Street and a beautiful flag to be used by the army that was to be formed the moment the £10,000 a year. Meanwhile, we are ad
should enter the Crecho vised to keep cheerful; and out of a host Russian
suggestions as to the probable origin
immune.
of
of the
flo,"
Blovak countries, they were punished in a most cruel manner by the Austrians. the most feasible appears Still, the girls and women continued to
to be that it is widespread because
national stamina has seen lowered as a spread propaganda, by leaflets and many
result of war worry, overwork, and food; rationing.
A FAMOUS ADMIRAL.
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of them have been executed.
things sale ne far as Turkey is concerned.
The submarine buses on the Adriatic and
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