The Sign of the Cross
IMPASSIONED ADDRESS BY THE GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS.
A SACRED DREAM.
"POLAND WILL BE BORN AGAIN"
jflßir Eliotrio Tedigbaph—Oofybioht) [Unitee Press Association.] (Received 9.0 a.m.)
London, August 16
The Grand Duke Nicholas, command-er-in-Chief , addressing the Poles, said: "The sacred dream of your fathers and grandfathers may he realised. As a living body Poland was torn to pieces, hut the soul of the country is not dead. The hour of resurrection and fraternal recaucilliation has arrived, obliterating' the. frontiers dividing the Polish people. It unites them conjointly under the Russian sceptre, und<?i\ wjiich Poland will he born again, free, in her religion and language. With open heart and brotherly hand, Russia advances to meet you. The dawn of !&■ nek life iis beginning for you in which is tf>on the sign of the cross, the symbol; of: suffering, and the resurrection, ui the peoples." I r ••'■ •••■' •<. '
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 99, 17 August 1914, Page 5
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