POLISH GOVERNMENT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 November 1939, Page 3

POLISH GOVERNMENT

NEW QUARTERS IN FRANCE PREMIER'S TOUR OF BRITAIN. 1 AWARDS TO FIGHTING FORCES. fly Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ; LONDON. November 12. Members of the diplomatic corps attached to the Polish Government have already taken up their quarters at the new seat of tne Polish Government “somewhere in France." where they have l?een granted an area with extraterritorial rights. The Polish Government is removing to the new seat immediately the Prime Minister, General Sikorski, and the Foreign Minister, M Zaleski, return from England. An agreement has been signed between the Polish and British Governments making provision for the co-op-eration of certain units of the Polish naval forces with those of the British Navy. General Sikorski visited Scotland yesterday and conferred decorations on the personnel of Polish warships. He called on the Lord Provost and visited Rosyth, where he lunched in Admiralty House with the Commander-in-Chief for Rosyth. The Duke of Kent was present. General Sikorski later visited His Majesty's ships in Rosyth. subsequently proceeding to Edinburgh, where he met the Lord Provost and the General Officer commanding the Scottish Command. After dining with the RearAdmiral in the Rosyth dockyard. General Sikorski returned to London. The decorations he presented were the first awarded during the Avar to members of the Polish fighting forces. The recipients were members of Polish naval units. General Sikorski, who inspected the Polish crews on .board a British vessel, thanked them for the marvellous courage and endurance they had shown in bringing Polish'ships from the Baltic through enemy waters to the friendly Allied shores. At the moment when Poland was in such distress they found outside their own country that marvellous hospitality of the greatest fleet in the world. The Polish units would collaborate with the British Fleet till the Allied Powers obtained victory, which could not be 'in doubt.