POLAND PREPARING
NATIONAL DEFENCE FUNDS POURING IN (Reed. March 29, 3 p.m.) WARSAW, March 28. A total of 700,000 gas masks are being distributed in Warsaw. Poland’s military and moral preparedness for war continues to be the theme of press and public utterances by organisations throughout the country. The national defence fund is pouring in. Lwow University students pledged themselves to give up their month’s vacation without pay to build fortifications on the German frontier. General Skwarczynski, in the presence of General Smigly Ridz, who was borne shoulder high, declared that all Poland saw a great crisis approaching and must work for peace and strive for neighbourliness and not allow any pressure to influence her. She must not involve herself in aggression.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19390330.2.114
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19900, 30 March 1939, Page 7
Word Count
122POLAND PREPARING Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19900, 30 March 1939, Page 7
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in