POLISH FORCES
NEW COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF
LONDON. July 10
The Polish Telegraph Bureau says General Sosnkowski has been appointed Polish Commander-in-Chief. President Rackiewicz has asked M. M’kolajczyk to form, a new Cabinet. General Sosnkowski was the hero of Przemysl, where he defeated a superior number of Germans, taking several thousand prisoners, and also many tanks and guns. When the Russians marched into Poland, General Sosnkowski escaped, disguised as a peasant. He walked 125 miles across the Carpathian Mountains. He eventually reached Paris, where he offered his service?- to General Sikorski. General Sosnkowski • was injured in 1941 during a London air raid.
GENERAL SIKORSKI
RUGBY. July 10. ,
The body of General Sikorski was landed at a south-west port to-night. It was brought from Gibraltar in a Polish destroyer.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 July 1943, Page 5
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