POLISH LEGION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 November 1939, Page 5

POLISH LEGION

ORGANISATION IN FRANCE STRONG FORCE BEING BUILT UP. MINISTERIAL MISSION TO LONDON. (British Official Wireless. I RUGBY, November 15. The Polish Prime Minister, General Sikorski, and his Foreign Minister. M Zaleski, today continued their series of meetings with individual British Ministers, calling at lhe Air Ministry and the War Office. General Sikorski, besides being lhe Prime Minister, is the commander of a rapidly-growing Polish army in France. Out of the Poles living in France alone il is estimated that tit least 100.000 will be called up' by degrees. They will form a distinctive national body, and their determination is expressed in the words of their national anthem. “Poland is not dead whilewe live.” Already several thousand men have joined the Polish units, which will serve under Polish officers under the direction of the French High Command, while others are continuing their valuable work in the coalmines and great engineering shops for the Allied cause. The Polish authorities have received promises of substantial help and enlistment from the 5,000.000 Polish citizens in America. Canada has several thousand Poles, some of whom are doing national service in key industries and others are anxious to cross over for enlistment. Altogether the foundations are laid for a strong Polish force to fight on the Western Front. ADDRESS BY SIKORSKI TURNING POINT REACHED IN HISTORY. CHOICE BETWEEN TWO SYSTEMS. (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, November 16. General Sikorski, speaking to the Foreign Press Association, said mankind was now at a turning point of history and must choose between the two forms of collective existence at present contending for supremacy. Poland had made her choice and knew she could only exist in a united and consolidated Europe. The Polish Navy was already co-operating with the British Navy and an army and air force would be ready in a few months time to support the Allies.