GENERAL SIKORSKI
POLISH PRIME MINISTER KILLED IN AIR CRASH NEAR GIBRALTAR. FATAL END TO TOUR OF MIDDLE EAST. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) LONDON, July 5. The Air Ministry announces the death in an air crash of General Sikorski, Polish Prime Minister and Com-mander-in-Chief of the Polish armed forces. He was killed when a Liberator bomber crashed shortly after taking off from Gibraltar.
The Polish Government in London was in special session this morning to consider the position arising from General Sikorski's death. He had had a number of political and military talks in Cairo and had been visiting various places in the Middle East since May.
General Wladyslaw Sikorski, G.8.E., became Prime Minister of the Polish Government and Commander-in-Chief of Poland, when President Moscicki resigned, and M. Racziewicz formed a new Polish Government in France. Ho was born in 1881. During the war of 1914-18 he was a lieutenant-colonel of the Polish Legion. He took a prominent part in the defence of Lwow and Przemysl against the Ukrainians in 1919, and was commander of the sth and 3rd Army Corps in the war against the Bolsheviks. In 1921-22 he was Chief of General Staff and became Prime Minister in the following year. From 1923 to 1925 he was Minister of Military Affairs, and later bacame commander of the Lwow military area. From 1928 till 1939 he was on half-pay. Overseas comment has sometimes referred to General Sikorski as one of the more liberal members of the Polish Government, in addition to being a man of great military talent. At a Press conference which he held in Cairo only last Friday he said. “I myself will command the first troops to re-enter Poland."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 July 1943, Page 3
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