WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 July 1943, Page 5

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

POLISH GOVERNMENT LONDON. July 14. Mr. Churchill to-night broadcast to the people of Poland. He said they were enduring with unlimited fortitude the worst that enemy brutality could do to them. . With them he mourned the death of General Sikorski. their Prime Minister and Com-mander-in-Chief. General Sikorski had been a statesman, soldier, comrade, an ally, and, above all, a Pole. Soldiers must die, added Mr. Churchill, but in their death they aided the nation which gave them birth. The new Polish Prime Minister (Mr. Stanislaw Mikolajczyk) has announced the formation of a new government, and said it would be guided by the sincere democratic principles laid down by General Sikorski. ATLANTIC CHARTER. RUGBY, July 15.. The question whether the Atlantic Charter would debar the United States and Britain continuing to hold certain strategic points formerly in Axis hands, was raised in the Commons. Mr. Attlee replied that nothing in the Atlantic Charter would in the opinion of the British Government preclude the United Nations taking any necessary steps to afford all nations the means of dwelling .in safety within their own boundaries. PROGRESS > LONDON, July 15. A Chinese communique says 4 hat Japanese forces striking from Kunlung on the Yunnan-Burma border are retreating to their base, and the Chinese have restored their original position. Another enemy thrust against Bungling has been turned back.