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NOTABLE FORCE

POLES IN MIDDLE EAST HIGH STANDARDS OF TRAINING & DISCIPLINE. CONSIDERABLE INCREASE IN STRENGTH. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, August 5. Poles are now by far the largest of the various Allied contingents comprising the Middle East armies, says the Jerusalem correspondent of “The Times.” A large draft of Poles from Russia three months ago raised them to the rank of a small army, complete with all arms and auxiliary services, including a women’s corps. The commander of the Poles, General Zajac, believes that the Polish forces will total 100,000 when the reserve of Polish manpower in Russia is fully drawn on. The Poles are quartered in huge camps in Palestine where they are accustoming themselves to new British equipment. They • include entire units who fought in Poland. Their physical standard is high and their discipline good. It seems they are destined to be an army to be reckoned with. The officer cadet training unit has 160 gunnel' cadets alone. Most of the instructors are drawn like General Zajac from Polish divisions in Scotland and they are thus familiar with British weapons and material. The pets of the camp are the boy soldiers, number 1500, aged between eight and 17, who were brought from Russia and forthwith attached to the army and put into khaki. It has now been decided to send those under 14 to school. The others are being trained for signallers, mechanics, drivers and aircraft fitters when they reach military age. They are already specialists.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19420807.2.28

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 August 1942, Page 3

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Tapeke kupu
248

NOTABLE FORCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 August 1942, Page 3

NOTABLE FORCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 August 1942, Page 3

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