GIRL TOW-GUNNERS

Evening Star, Issue 25171, 10 May 1944, Page 3

GIRL TOW-GUNNERS

WITH POLISH FORCE IN RUSSIAN DRIVE "LONDON, May 8. " A battalion of girl tommy-gunners trained for sentry duty and guarding convoys forms part of a Polish force totalling four front-line divisions/which are talk ins U P positions to participate in the Russian drive into Poland," says the British United Press correspondent with the Polish army on the first Ukrainian front.

"Two of these girls, both under 20. said they formed part of an execution squad) which shot a Pole who refused to go to the front.'' Iteuter's correspondent says the Polish troops generally are tough and well armed. They are a powerful force, with their own artillery and armoured air units-. Their equipment includes British, American, and Canadian

vehicles and guns. One division saw action near Orsha last October. Recruiting continues on a mass scale. 1.000 men from liberated areas arriving in "one day. , Recently a Polish-American, Professor Oscar Lange, of Chicago, addressed the men, who at the close of the meeting shouted): "Down with the Polish Government in London."