POLES "JOIN UP."
EAGER TO FIGHT. (Special.—By Air Mail.) LONDON, December 2. A London school, the children evacuated to the country, has been turned into a recruiting station and camp for Poles. The blackboards in the classrooms are covered with notices in Polish. One hundred beds have been lent by the Koyal Air Force to take the place of desks.
The commandant of the school is Lieutenant M. Kweiatowski, a former official of the Polish Consulate in London. Four officers on the reserve of the Polish Army run the camp. They give the men simple drill in the playground and lectures. One of the men worked in the London office of a Polish metal exporting firm until the war started. Another was a Polish radio official, who, when the war started, was in Wales taking a holiday music course. "We have great trouble to keep the men here," he said. "They all want to go straight away to France to fight.
"You see, all of us had relatives in Poland. Since the war we have not heard a word about them. We do not know if they are dead or alive. There is only oner thing left for us to do. That is, to go and fight. The soldiers will fight with the French Army. The sailors and airmen will go with the British Navy and the Royal Air Force," '
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 305, 27 December 1939, Page 9
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