POLAND'S DETERMINATION

Evening Star, Issue 24288, 1 September 1942, Page 4

POLAND'S DETERMINATION

THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF WAR (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 10.45 a.m.) RUGBY, Aug. 31. On the third anniversary of the Polish-German war, General Sikorski has issued a statement reaffirming Poland’s determination to continue the fight until final victory. The Poles regarded the difficult and heroic September fight and its fatal results, he said, as a lost campaign, not as a lost war—as a defeat of the regime, but not a defeat of Poland. Therefore they bad never laid down their arms for a moment. General Sikorski. dealing with Germany’s difficulties in the war, said her losses of men since the beginning of the conflict amounted to-day to 1,500,000 dead and 3,000,000 wounded and sick, of whom a-million will never return to the ranks, besides enormous quantities of equipment. General _ Sikorski contended that the raid on Dieppe proved that invasion of the Continent was absolutely feasible.

BOMBS ON BURMA (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 10.35 a.m.) RUGBY, Aug. 31. A communique issued at New Delhi states that-yesterday the R.A.E. bombed Japanese river craft at Akyab. Lowlevel attacks were made on a steamer which was seen to be sinking. Some of the aircraft returned to base without carrying out their mission owing to bad weather, BIG QUISLING RALLY (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 10.45 a.m.) RUGBY, Aug. 31. According to reliable reports from Oslo the. leaders of the National Samling (Norwegian Quisling Party) have almost completed preparations for proclamation of Parliament during the big Quisling rally called for September 25 to 27 to celebrate the second anniversary of Quisling’s assumption of power. Since no elections can be held, the principle of. the Quisling Parliament will Ire that of delegation from main organisations and associations in the country.