FIRST GIRL GLIDER.
GUIDE FROM POLAND.
SEEKS WAR WORK IN ENGLAND (Special.) LONDON, Nov. 5. The first girl in the .world to get a gliding pilot's license, Polish Girl Guide Mile. Duda Kulinska, has just reached Portugal after escaping from France. She was stranded there on the outbreak of war. "Two years ago Mile. Kulinska was over here on a walking tour," an official at Girl Guide headquarters in London said this week. "She went all over England and made many friends here. Then she returned to Poland. When war broke out she was in France, and she could not get back to her own country. She took up nursing and worked in a hospital tending French wounded, and also helped many refugees. "When tlie Germans occupied Paris she was taken prisoner. Since then she has had many thrilling adventures l>eforc reaching Portugal, where she still is. "She has written to a friend in this country thaf'her great aim is to get over hero and do war work. I understand that she has at least suoceeded in getting her permit, so she should arrive before long. "She cannot disclose any particulars of her adventures in the meantime, for the sako of others still in German occupied tcrritorv."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 297, 14 December 1940, Page 6
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