HUNS HOPE RAISE BIG ARMY FROM POLAND.
LONDO'N,' November. 17The Morning Post's Budapest correspondent says: ''••'■'•-, v "Tlio 'Polish army which is to be raised during the next two ; months ■under the admihistmtion of the Army Department of the National Council at Warsaw is expected to supply another half-million m'piv foi* the army, while many thousands of workers who have not yet been forced. to do w^.r work will be available, these having been all sent to •Germany- iiv small parties, not. by military governor, but by the Polish Provincial . .Government, - which began work the week . before the, independence lll'oclanlatioil;.app^are<ll": , . '"- - : - •-■/; ■"^ ''Accorifling'.tO^tlie '^eph&ea, the or j , gariisatibnbf : war' 'parties \ has' been going; oh for mOiitlisV : 'iSie ..Polish army, iac- : cOrflirig. to "'."tlie saline,/ jourriaL w?ll :bb f bi'rii^d oh -the of .PolisH..legions,vriiicli willnow ibQ^'placed- under command of 'Gerihari officeiis, an<l all men 1 between 18'.and. 66. years pf v ;agje '.will be called up, witihiri a f qyr-' wo^ks ;tiine. Thecalculation is -that ,-the^g new troops, can he converted by -*yhe coining spring jiftd .'as perfect solcjiers as -, wa,s': their' brethren in the legions^ which were only units,.' where women- were -also .fightiiig." y "One -of .the ppmpany conimanders pt the Austrian Legion pf Pole's is.' a rwpmari: ■$he'bveh -vweS-rs , the .Iron Cross; "-
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14191, 8 January 1917, Page 8
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