MARSHAL PILSUDSKI ILL
REPORTED PARALYSIS A CHANGEFUL CAREER (United P.A.—Bp Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian Press Associatioyi) Reed. 9.5 a.m. BERLIN, Monday. It is reported that Marshal Pilsud-
ski, the Polish dictator, has become paralysed. Josepli Pilsudski, Polish soldiei* and statesman, is of Lithuanian descent. An intensely patriotic Pole, he was arrested in Russia, and spent five years in Siberia. Back in Poland he was imprisoned for conducting “The Worker,” a clandestine paper, but he escaped to England. The next year saw him back again. When the Great War broke out he appeared as general of a Polish legion which invaded Prussia on August 6, 1914. After the Austro-German conquest of Russion Poland he was made a member of the Polish Council of State in November, 1916, but soon resigned. The Central Powers thereupon caused him to be arrested on July 21, 1917. He was freed the next yeai\ and governed for a time as dictator. He was elected president of Poland on February 20, 1919, and later was given the rank of marshal.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 342, 1 May 1928, Page 9
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