POLISH DIFFERENCES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 July 1943, Page 3

POLISH DIFFERENCES

OVER MILITARY COMMAND

APPOINTMENT ANNOUNCED.

PREMIER ASKED TO FORM NEW CABINET.

ißy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, July 9.

The Acting-Premier of the Polish Government, M. Mikolajcyzk, has resigned owing to differences about the choice of a Commander-in-Chief of the Polish forces to succeed General Sikorski, says the ‘‘Daily Telegraph.” tGeneral Sikorski was also Premier, but it is understood that in the reconstructed Polish Government the post of com-mander-in-chief will be a purely military post, without political duties. M. Mikolajcyzk presided over a meeting of the Polish Cabinet today.

The Polish Telegraph Bureau, a later message states, reports that General Sosnkowski has been appointed Polish Commander-in-Chief. President Rackiewicz has asked M. Mikolajezyk to form a new Cabinet?

General Sosnkowski was the hero of Przemysl, where he defeated superior numbers of Germans, taking several thousand prisoners and many tanks and guns. When the Russians marched into Poland he escaped disguised as a peasant, walked 125 miles across the Carpathians and reached Paris, where he offered his services to General Sikorski. He was injured in 1941 during an air raid on London. He fought in the Great War, and held the post of Minister of War from 1920 to 1923. He is 58 years of age. General Sikorski’s body was landed at a south-west port tonight. It was brought from Gibraltar in a Polish destroyer.

An Italian news agency says the Allies at Dakar recovered gold from the .National Bank of Poland amounting to £16.000.000 sterling.