COURAGEOUS POLES
Naval Units Decorated British Official Wireless RUGBY, November 17. The Polish Prime Minister (General Sikorski) to-day visited a Scottish port to present the first decorations awarded during the war to members of the Polish fighting forces. The recipients were members of Polish naval units. General Sikorski, who inspected the Polish crews on board a British vessel, thanked them for the marvellous courage and endurance they had sbovn in bringing the Polish ships from the Baltic through enemy waters to the friendly British shores. At the moment when Poland was in such distress, they had found, outside their own country, that marvellous hospitality of the greatest fleet in the world. Tiie Polish units would collaborate with the British Fleet until the Allied Powers obtained victory, which could not be in doubt.
Speaking to the Foreign Press Association, General Sikorski said: “Mankind is now at a turning point of history and must choose between two forms of collective existence which are at present contending for supremacy. Poland has made her choice. She knows she can exist only in a united and consolidated Europe. The Polish Navy is already co-operat-ing with the British Navy. The Polish Army and Air Force will be ready in a few months to support the Allies.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21507, 21 November 1939, Page 7
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210COURAGEOUS POLES Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21507, 21 November 1939, Page 7
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