COMMON FOE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20622, 1 August 1941, Page 6

COMMON FOE

POLAND AND SOVIET RESISTING GERMANY new era in relations (Elec. Tel Copyright—United Pi-chh Assn.) (British Oflicinl Wireless.) Reed. 1.40 p.m. RUGBY, July 31. Broadcasting to Poland on the occasion of the Russo-Polish agreement, the Polish Prime Minister, General Sikorski, recaleld that both in 1795 and 1939 two Powers had vowed that Poland and the Polish name were to disappear for ever. The first vow was cancelled by the judgment of history, and the 1939 declaration did not last two years. Now that the last treaty between Germany and Russia was wiped out, Poland stood on the threshold of a new era in her relations with Russia.

Speaking of the Nazi attack on Russia, General Sikorski said: “Without restorting to prophecy, I can state that the frivolous plan of a complete shattering of Russia in 70 days, as the German General Stall' calculated, had obviously been broken. Meanwhile the German troops, engulfed by the Russian expanse, are being materially and morally exhausted with every day. Almost four-fifths of the German forces are engaged in the east. Their losses in killed and wounded are close on 1,000,000 men. Their military equipment is being catastrophically destroyed, so when to-day Rusisa, in her mortal struggle wun the German avalanche, enters on the road of reconcilition with Poland and desires /common action against 'the common enemy, we set about this task with readiness and forget sanguinary wrongs. The future fate of the agreement we have reached will depend equally on the goodwill of the other side."