PRESIDENT OF POLAND.
SUFFERING FROM PARALYSIS. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECT KB TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (UNITED SERVICE.) WARSAW, May 2. Marshal Pilsudski, President of Poland, is suffering from paralysis. King Amanullah of Afghanistan visited him, and remained in conversation with him for three-quarters of an hour. Joseph Pilsudski, Polish soldier and statesman, is of Lithuanian descent. An intensely patriotic Pole, he was arrested in Russia, and spent five yeans in Siberia. Back in Poland he was imprisoned for conducting “The Worker,” a clandestine paper, but he escaped to England. The next year saw him back again. When the Great War broke out he appeared as general of a Polish legion which invaded Prussia on August 6, 1914. Alter the AustroGerman conquest of Russian Poland he was made a member of the Polish Council of State in November, 1916, but soon resigned. The Central Powers thereupon caused him to be arrested on July 21, 1917. He was freed the next year, and governed for a time as dictator. He was elected president of Poland on February 20, 1919, and later was given the rank of marshal.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 4 May 1928, Page 5
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