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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 3, 1939
60,000 More Men In Swiss Army
What amounts to universal na- tional service in Switzerland has been announced. The Swiss Federal Council has,-"in view of the present international tension," has extend- ed the age of liability to military service on Switzerland from 48 to 60.
PROPAGANDA
IN CORSICA
M. Petru Rocca, editor of the Corsican Autonomist newspaper, "A Muvra”, which is published in Ajaccio and is inspired by Italy, has been indicted with carrying propaganda detrimental to French sovereignty;.
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ments have been made, an increase
of at least 60,000 in the effectives of the Swiss Army.
HOW PILSUDSKI REMADE POLAND
All men between 48 and 60 not otherwise fit will be drafted into The first comprehensive bio- May 30 one or other of the 31 newly created graphy in English of that great so)- June 16 fields of national service"-A.B.P., dier, statesman and liberator Mar- June 28 auxiliary labour services, agricul-shal Pilsudski, is published (Mar- July 10tural services, and so on. Men be-shal Pilsudski, by W. F. Reddaway,
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service will be allocated among] The story is admirably toldby. these auxiliary departments, and the author. Much of it is still new to the Federal Council has appealed to the average Englishman, for as we the remaining classes-from 32 to read in the introduction: 48-to volunteer for similar work.
CALL TO WOMEN
In its broadcast appeal, the Federal Council issued an urgent call for the services of women and! girls, partly to replace men in the] auxiliary national services and partly to work in connection with national health, education and agriculture.
"Poland has been peculiarly re- mote from Great Britain. Pilsudeki, again, baffles the Bri- ton, because of his manifest un- likeness to our accustomed con- céption of the Pole. The fourfold personality: which he claims the joyous child, the affable lording, sage and commander may always défy anklysis.” The appeal stresses the urgency Joseph Pilsudski was of Polish of the moment. "We must not wait stock, and his early years near until war breaks out," it says. “Our Wilna gave him an intense abiding duty is to be ready now. If-which hatred of Russia. He drifted into God forbid-war should come upon Polish Socialism, and it may not be us, only the united devotion and generally known that in 1894 he self-sacrifice of all our men and was engageĈ in London in the out- women can avail to save the hard-put of conspiratorial literature. He won heritage of our.
national kept ever before him the goal of a liberty,"
reunited Poland, and combined the roles of a gallant leader in the war on the Austrian side as well as a politician.
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Warning 'Phone Call
Police guarded bridges and the permanent way at points along the route of the Irish boat-train from London to Heysham following in- formation that an attempt was to be made to wreck the train.
Before the train left Euston and during the journey railwaymen scrutinised the passengers and searched for explosives.
Messages were flashed to each police force along the route.
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The warning was given in an anonymous, telephone call to Euston station. It is believed that it may have been a hoax.
MET GREAT DIFFICULTIES
After the Armistice his supreme opportunity came. Few men could have encountered-greater-difficul- ties or survived them. The author says:
"But the first necessity of gov- ernment, general consent; was un- attainable so long the Polish National Committee in Paris con- tinued to regard itself as Poland.
"The second, a well-disciplined army, had yet to be created. Re- venue and rolling stock, a diplo- matic service and a constitution, peace, industry and trade such were the urgent needs of Poland.” The army grew by leaps and bounds, and the Marshal had the genius to forge it into an organic whole from the wreck of three Em- pires.
He dared to take Wilna, to con- quer Eastern Galicia, but this pro- voked a Bolshevik counter-offen- sive in which the bravery of the Poles, though seriously outnumber- ed, and the genius of Pilsudski suc- ceeded in gaining a victory of im- mense importance to the world in August, 1930.
EMBITTERING CONTEST
The author dismisses Gen. Woy- gand in two or three sentences. It would have been interesting to have had more details of the interven- tion of the famous French soldier, which, according to some other writers, was less negative than Mr. Reddaway suggests,
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