POLISH SOLDIERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 August 1940, Page 5

POLISH SOLDIERS

RECORD OF VALIANT EFFORT STAND WITH GREAT BRITAIN FOR REDEMPTION OF EUROPE. (Ey Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) RUGBY. August 5. Tn the course of a broadcast tallr on the occasion of the agreement between Britain and Poland. -Mr Victor Cazelet. 31.1’.. after recalling many of the personal ties which had existed between the two countries for 300 years, described how 50.000 Polish soldiers escaped from Poland into France after their country had withstood the whole might of the German war machine for five week's.

Polish soldiers fought valiantly in Franco and Norway and were among the first to take Narvik. They were among the last to be evacuated from France and now were putting their magnificent fighting qualities at the disposal of Britain. Their airmen, he said, would shortly bo in the skies alongside the R.A.F., bombing and fighting the Germans. Concluding. Mr Cazelet said: “The presence of the Polish President and Government and General Sikorski and his forces here on British soil is a worthy symbol of our determination to carry on the struggle together till victory is won and the rights and independence of our Allies are reestablished in a peaceful Europe freed from, the dire domination of that nation which so ruthlessly started a world war by its unwarranted and unpovoked attack on the Polish people.”