POLISH CRISIS

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVI, Issue 23013, 3 October 1944, Page 5

POLISH CRISIS

General Relieved Of Post

RUGBY, September 29. The Polish President (M. RaczkieWicz)) has decided to relieve General Sosnkowski, Commander-In-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces, of his post, following the demand put forward by the Polish Cabinet. It is understood that General Bors-Komorowski will take his place. This change brings to an end the crisis in Polish governing circles in London which came to a 1 head when General Sosnkowski made his illadvised order of the day disparaging the assistance brought by the Allies to the defenders of Warsaw. The new Polish military chief in London, General Kupanski, is remembered as .commander of the Polish troops who shared with the British the epic defence of Tobruk during trie eight months’ siege. General Bors, at present commanding the Polish Home Army in Warsaw, will be appointed the new Commander-in-Chlef of the Polish armed forces, says “The Times.” M. Raczkiewicz will to-day sign a decree relieving General Sosnkowski of the Tost of commander-ln-chief. Until General Bors is able to take over the post, General Kupanski, Chief of Staff of the Polish Forces, will deputise for him. “General Bors is a criminal against the Polish people because he was the instigator of the premature rising in Warsaw which cost the lives of more than 250,000 people,” said M. Moravski, president of the Polish Committee of National Liberation, at a Press conference at the Polish Embassy in Moscow. He added: “If the. Polish Government in London appointed him to succeed General Sosnkowski as commander-in-chief, it must be crazy. The feeling in Warsaw is greater against General Bors than against General Sosnkowski. General Bors, if he falls into the hands of the Polish Army or the National Cpmmittee, will be arrested, tried and punished.” The National Committees’ defence member, General Rolazymierski, told the conference that General Bors had never been in Warsaw during the fighting, but stayed in a secret spot 20 miles from the capital. M. Moravski later said that relations between the National Committee in Warsaw and the Polish Government in London had become worse. “Some members in the London Emigre Government may have caused the Warsaw uprising and they will be punished if found guilty.”