POLISH ARMY
Nearly Half Now Equipped In Russia (Received November 14, 12.10 a.m.) LONDON, November 13. Forty-eight thousand Poles are fighting in the ranks of the Allies ou land, at sea and in the air, in Britain and the Middle East, said the Polish Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief, General Sikorski, in Egypt to Press correspondents. He continued, “In Russia we can easily form an army of 150,000 men who have been deported from Poland and are 'being liberated. Sixty thousand are fully equipped. The others are working iu munitions factories in Southern Russia, but all are willing to join the army when equipment is provided.” General Sikorski added that though 82,000 Polish men, women and children had been executed by the Germans. Hitler was on the verge of a volcano. “He must be crazy to believe he could exterminate a nation of 30,000,000,” he said.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 43, 14 November 1941, Page 8
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