PILSUDSKI PASSES.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 May 1935, Page 5

PILSUDSKI PASSES.

FAMOUS POLISH DICTATOR. UNEXPECTED END TO STORMY CAREER. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright) WARSAW, May 12. Obituary: Joseph Clemens Pilsudski, First Marshal of Poland and Inspector-General of Polish Armed Forces and Minister of War since 1926.

General Eydz-Smigly has been appointed to succeed Marshal Pilsudski, who died of kidney trouble, from which he had been suffering for several months.

General Eydz-Smigly is popular with the army, and was one of the besttrusted of Marshal Pilsudski’s assistants.

General Edward Eydz-Smigly, Inspector of the Polish Army, was born in ISSG, He served in Marshal Pilsudski’s Polish Legions during the Great War. and was appointed an Army Commander in 1920.

VICTIM OF CANCER,

Received Monday, 9.50 p.m. s . WARSAW, May 13

The doctors state that Piisudski's death was due to cancer of the liver. Members of the Government with his wife and two daughters were at the bedside when he passed away. General Kasrzyski has been appointed to Piisudski ’s other office, the Ministry of War.

GREATEST UNIFYING FORCE POLAND HAS KNOWN.

DEATH MAY AFFECT HER f FUTURE Received Monday, 8.55 p.m. WARSAW, May 13, The public had no idea that Piisudski was a dying man though his entourage was well aware of the crisis. The annotincemcnt eclipsed the interest of M. Laval’s visit which, however, resulted in an official French intimation that there was nothing behind the Franco-Soviet pact to cause Poland the least anxiety. LONDON, May 13. Daily Telegraph’s Warsaw correspondent adds: “I gather that M. Laval promised moral support for Polish aspirations in the Baltic sector, but could not be more specific until he talked the matter over.”

Piisudski’s body is lying in state in the Belvedere palace. Cabinet was in continuous session in Belvedere palace for many hours, but the real power lias with President Moscicki and Colonel Beck. Moscicki, who was Piisudski's nominee, is assured of farreaching powers approaching a dictatorship under B the new constitution. Moreover Pilsudski’s friends, known as “the colonel’s group,” retain ah the principal Government positions. Ashmead Bartlett, in the Chronicle, says Pilsudski’s death will profoundly affect the European situation. It may end , the attempt to keep Poland equally friendly to Germany and Russia. Many Poles who were questioning the possibility of continuing friendship with Germany, feared to oppose Piisudski, but are now 7 not likely to hide their feelings. Poland has lost the greatest unifying force she has known. Consequently she is likely to become a pawn instead of a commanding influence.

The Daily Mail's Warsaw correspondent says Pilsudski's death coincides with the ninth anniversary of his seizure of power. National mourning of 36 days will be proclaimed.