RELEASE REVEALED

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 136, 11 June 1945, Page 5

RELEASE REVEALED

Rec. 12.15 p.m

LONDON, June 10

Declaring that he had just been released from a concentration camp for Polish soldiers in Scotland, Mr. Jagodzinski, on his arrival in London, issued the following statement: —

"I am grateful for the friendly attitude of the British Press and public, and for the speedy action of the British authorities. In the camp I met many Polish soldiers whose only crime was that they wanted to return to Poland.

"There is a very severe regime in the camp. One prisoner told me the guards wounded one internee who tried to escape and then shot him dead when he was lying on the ground. Another said the punishment for trying to escape was a fortnight chained in a dark cellar.

"My release does not settle the problem. There are still many thousands of Poles in the London emigre Government's camps in Scotland, Italy, and Palestine. Thousands more are in repatriation camps and are prevented from returning home.

"The London Poles use their jurisdiction over Polish nationals for political purposes in order to prevent them from going to Poland, which badly needs man-power for reconstruction."