POLES IN SCOTLAND

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LXII, Issue 19, 11 March 1941, Page 1

POLES IN SCOTLAND

MANNING THE COAST

WELL-EQUIPPED FORCE

The Polish troops who took part in the capture of Narvik have been completely reorganised and reequipped and are now manning defences on the east coast of Scotland. They are wearing British battle-dress and are armed with British rifles and machine-guns.

Their commander, General Harlan Kukiel, led British, American and Dominion war correspondents on a two-day tour of the terrain in which Poles are now placed in much the same way as the British soldiers were placed in northern France last winter.

Scottish towns and villages now echo to Polish folk"" songs, while the roads resound to the tramp of feet as General Kukiel's men route march or goose-step ceremoniously.

Included in the corps are a number of Polish women who serve in canteens or sing in a theatrical party. They shared the hardships of the soldiers in the retreat from Poland, following them later to England and even going to Narvik. Finally they returned to "Scotland.

Priests celebrate mass with the elaborate ritual of the Greek Orthodox Church before altars improvised in tents. s

If the Germans attempt to invade England they may possibly create *a diversion by attacking Scotland from Norway or the Baltic in ships, as the distances rule out the use of barges, which could be used across the narrow English Channel.

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