POLISH TROOPS
SIX FULL DIVISIONS TO FIGHT SIDE BY SIDE WITH RUSSIANS. ANNOUNCEMENT BY GENERAL SIKORSKI. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, January 9. There will soon be 100,000 Poles on the Russian front, fully armed and equipped and ready to fight side by side with the Russians against the common foe. This was made known by the Polish Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief, General Sikorski, who said M. Stalin had agreed to the strength of the Polish forces in Russia being increased from two divisions to six. He had also agreed that all Polish civilians in Russia not already free should be liberated. General Sikorski said the battles of Moscow and Rostov had decided the German defeat on the Russian front.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 January 1942, Page 3
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