FREEDOM FOR POLAND

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2231, 18 August 1914, Page 5

FREEDOM FOR POLAND

PROCLAMATION BY THE TSAR INTEGRITY GUARANTEED St. Petorsburg, August 16. A proclamation by the Tsar addressed to Poles in Hussia, flormanr, and Austria, restores to Poland its original tevritorifil integrity, and onlr ittmrn th» Tight to appoint i Viceroy.

m, /n ' London, August IG. • sa? i Duke Nicholas, Commander-. in-Chief ot the* Russian. Army, addressing the Poles, said: "The snored dream of your fathers nnd grandfathers iaay bo realised. The living body of Poland may te torn to pieces, but the soul of the country will not bo, dead an hour before there is resurrection. Fraternal reconciliation has arrived, obliterating the frontiers dividing the Polish people. It unites them conjointly under the Russian sceptre, under which Poland will be born free in her religion and language. With an open heart and a brotherly hand Russia advances, to meet you. The daivn , p* new life is beginning for you, in which is seen the sign of the cross, the symbol of snffering and the resurrection or the peoples." JOY AMONG FRENCH POLES, m, , ' Paris > August IG. ■ J. lie J.sars proclamation evoked unspeakable joy in the Polish colony in Paris. M. Postaivka is sending a mission to Poland to urge young Poles to join the SEnting 'me 1 against the German barbarians. leading Poles gratefully realise that England s humanitarian co-operation Prance and Russia has inflnenced the Tsar's action. Poles in England and imerica will niate a supremo effort to return and fight. A WAVE OP ENTHUSIASM. (Rec. August 17, 8.50 p.m.) m ' .London, August 17, morning. rJio •. Daily ChronicleV' St. Petersburg correspondent says that the proclamation ?[ for Poland has thrilled the Russians and Poles alike. It is the. first official indication of the vast historical changes the war is likely to produce, and intense enthusiasm was aroused at Warsaw by the proclamation, and it has had an excellent result on the mobilisation, and the effort to counteract German and Austrian incitements to a revolution. The Poles admit that owing to their hatred of Germany, and the growing antielav policy of Austria, Poland's only hope is a re-umon under the Russian Crdwn.