48,000 POLES FIGHT WITH ALLIES
CAIRO, November 13. General Wladyslaw Sikorski, Prime Minister of Poland, gave an interview to journalists in Egypt. “Forty-eight thousand Poles are fighting in the ranks of the Allies on land; sea and air in Britain and the Middle East,” he said. “In Russia, we can easily form an army of 150,000 men who have been deported from Poland and are being liberated. Sixty thousand are fully equipped and others are working in munitions factories in South Russia, but all are willing to join the army when equipment is provided.” Although 82,000 Polish men, women, and children had been executed by the Germans, General Sikorski added, Hitler was on the verge of a volcano, and he must be crazy to believe he could exterminate a nation of 30,000,000 persons.
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Southland Times, Issue 24593, 15 November 1941, Page 7
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