IS POLAND LOST?

:e part of the front-line routine. She cleaned
I fed the horses, chopped wood and helped
drag cannon out of the mire together with the
a.

The Polish amazons rendered invaluable ser-

js in the defence of Lwow, slipping through

enemy lines and bringing back information

ut the movements of the Russian Army, as well

news about the morale of the population. In

ition, they carried pamphlets, military orders

explosives to the Poles behind the Russian

s, well knowing that if caught they would be

suted. Naturally, they had to exercise all their

inine resource and cunning to elude the

sians, but when they were trapped they

aved with courage and dignity. At first, the

sians were not unimpressed and were inclined

reat these women leniently, but as cases of

onage by them multiplied, their sex was not

?sred to count and they were dealt with no less

rely than the male spies.

>han Tomcsdnyi, who had access to the original

sh records, and to whom we owe many of the

given here, wrote that the 'First Brigade of

ghtenment% i.e. the Intelligence Service,

:h was under the direct command of Pilsudski,

ided forty-six women, the majority of whom

passed through years of military training,

y were students and graduates of foreign

rersities, schoolteachers, journalists and other

:ated women. Their ages ranged from twenty

xty-five years, which shows that the spirit of