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Show m era EJMFTI Heads Compatriots Fighting Fight-ing With Armies of the Allies. UEW YORK, Oct. 23. General Josef ,lier, who, with 'a regiment of roles, jght his way out of the Austrian army, s been appointed commander-ln-chie! the Polish forces fighting with the al-s, al-s, said a cablegram received here to- I in- I;nace Paderewski, American rep-, rep-, sentative of the Polish national com-llec. com-llec. The new commander, who succeeded era! Archlnard', is stationed with fiol- 5 er "f his native land In France, but a authority as well over those In Italy in Russia. He was selected for the post V '- the Polish national committee, ivcos-cj ivcos-cj by the allies as an official organiza-n organiza-n of'Poland and with headquarters In atr-v Jdrtaking the oath of office recently Core the first Polish division in active service i France. General Haller delivered deliv-ered a ringing appeal to roles to rally to the emblem of the 'White Eagle and "at the point of your bayonets bring imliv and liberty lo Poland." General Haller declared that "Poland irlll not finally wrench apart the shackles that nave bound her for 150 years until Germanv and Austria are vanquished." He included in the Poles' task the liberation libera-tion of Warsaw. Cracow, Ywow (I.e-n-biirgl, Pozan (Posenl and Gdansk (Dant'zig), with other cities of the ancient Kalm. General De Castelnau of the French army utilized the occasion to salute the reconstructed re-constructed Polish forces. General Haller'S exploit in leading his Polish regiment out of the Austrian army, in which he was a colonel, was carried ont in the face of a terrific artillery and machine gun fire. With his men he Joined the Polish army corps in Russia, and the two units fought a five-day battle bat-tle with German forces whose commanders com-manders broke an agreement of arml-IhVe. arml-IhVe. Surrounded by Germans and Bol-aheviki, Bol-aheviki, General Haller effected a night retreat across the Dnieper and finally reached the Czecho-Slovak forces in southern Russia. Leaving his regiment there, he made his way across Russia to the Murman coast, where, allied troops facilitated his Journey to France. IfA dispatch received here early this month from a correspondent with the HV American expeditionary forces in France ' gave the name of the new commander-in-chief of the Polish army fighting with the allies as "Polo." The military career ! of "Pole," as described in this dispatch, conforms with that which is contained In the announcement made by the Polish national committee today, and it is assumed as-sumed here that the name of "rolo" was an error in transmission, attributed to cable difficulties. |