NEW POST FOR GENERAL BOR

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 2 October 1944, Page 5

NEW POST FOR GENERAL BOR

C.-IN-C. POLISH ARMED FORCES London, Sept. 30. General Bor, at present commanding the Polish Home Army in Warsaw, will be appointed new Commander-in-Chief of the Polish armed forces, s«uys “The Times.” M. Raczkiewicz, President, will to-day sign a decree relieving General Sosnkowski of the post of Con.mander-in-Chief. Ur.til General Bor is able to take over the post General Kopanski, Chief of Staff of the Polish Forces, will deputise for him. OBJECTION BY LIBERATION COMMITTEE “General Bor is a criminal against the Polish people because he was the instigator of the premature rising in Warsaw which cost the lives of more than a quarter of a million people, * said M. Moravski, President of the Polish Committee of National Liberation, at a press conference at the Polish Embassy in Moscow. He added: “If the Polish Government in London has appointed him to succeed General Sosnkowski as commander-in-chief, it must be crazy. Feeling in Warsaw is greater against General Bor than against General Sosnkowski. General Bor. if he falls into the hands of the Polish Army or the National Committee, will be arrested, tried and punished.” The National Committee’s defence member. General Rolazymierski, told the conference that General Bor had never been in Warsaw during the fighting, but had stayed at a secret spot 20 miles from the capital. M. Moravski later said that relations between the National Committee in Warsaw and the Polish Government in London had become worse. “Some members of the London emigre Government may have caused the Warsaw uprising, and they will be punished if found guilty.” SERIOUS SITUATION IN WARSAW (Rec. 10 a.m.) Rugby, Oct. 1. A communique from General Bor (Komorowski) states that the situation in Warsaw is serious. There is heavy fighting in the centre of the city. The Home Army has no communication with the suburb of Zoliboruz. In Dampinow forest on the approaches to Warsaw Polish units are being pushed to the west by strong enemy forces which after having been evacuated across the Vistula are concentrating in this area.