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Show POLISH ARMY TO BE RE-EQUIPPED BY U, S. Supplies to be Purchased in U. ! S. Surplus Stores Can be Obtained WARSAW, March 10. (By the Associated As-sociated Press.) Tho Polish army will bo .re-equipped by the purchase of supplies from the United States, it was learned here today. A Xormntion trant has been signed between the Warsaw and the Washington governments, govern-ments, it is slated, under which the American liquidation board will sell to Poland such ot the surplus American stores as Poland may require. Tho Folish government will be given giv-en six years credit for its purchases with interest at five per cent. It is agreed that the supplies are to be transported to Danzig by the American Amer-ican shipping board. It is understood tlmr under tho contract Poland ob-"talus ob-"talus clothing for 200,000 men, besides locomotives, -1500 cars, 5,000,000 pounds of oleomargerine, 100,009 tons flour and oats for the horses. I It is explained that the transaction in no way means that the United States will support Poland but that it merely is the result of the determination determina-tion of the United States to get rid of surplus stocks to any nation applying for them. |