POLAND’S FLAG AT THE FRONT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1768, 22 December 1917, Page 1

POLAND’S FLAG AT THE FRONT.

Writing from the French front in France recently, a correspondent of the Associated Press said: —A new national flag is soon to be unfolded on the French front —that of Poland. The silver eagle on a maroon field is to take its place beside thb French Tri-colour, the Stars and Stripes, the Union Jack, and the battle flags of the other Allies, and beneath its folds will fight Polish volunteers from all parts of the world, including thousands from the United States.

An autonomous Polish army is already in course of organisation on French soil, and its ranks have been opened to Polish citizens who have wandered abroad in search of freedom from the oppression to which the Polish nation has so long been subjected. The force is to be entirely independent of any other army, all its officers and men being of Polish birth or descent. The nucleus »of the new army is composed of Poles who have served in the French army since the beginning of hostilities. In Paris alone 500 enlisted at the first call, while Toulouse furnished''another 450, Abbeville 300, Dpuai 300, and ’Marseilles 100, besides many who joined in other cities, i