Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-11-04
Composed Largely of Polish
Recruits From the United
States and Men From Al
lied Armies.
Fighting for the Ultimate
Freedom of Poland-Full
Permission Given by the
New Provisional Govern
ment of Russia.
BY HENRY WOOD.

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
Paris, Oct. Shy mail.)-The new,
autonomous Polish army that is being
organised Tin Francs to fight on the
western front for the eventual freedom
of an independent Poland has Just been
augmented by the enlistment Of Poles
of the Russian brigades that for a year
and half past have been fighting on
the French front
While the new Polish rmy. will be
composed largely of Polish recruits
from the United States, the enlistment
of these veterans of both the Russian
and French front is considered Of
value.
In conjunction with the Polish vol
unteers who served during the first
three years Of tho war in the French
ranks, and who now form the first
troops Of the autonomous Polish
army, these picked, trained and exper-
fenced troops give the young Polish
army q solid military neucleus that is
expected to have a great influence in
$ the organization Of the new army.
These Russian and Polish veterans,
with three years of actual warfare be-
hind them. will be used largely in
drilling the new recruits.
PERMISSION BY RUSSIA.
The enlistment in the new Polish
army Of these contingents from the
3 Russian brigades in France was done
with the full permission and sanction
OF the new Russian provisional gov
eminent All Russians OF Polish
origin or extraction were allowed their
own choice of either the Polish or
Russian army for future service.
The voyage OF these new Russian vol
unteers across France to the Polisi,
camp where the new army Is being
organized on an independent autono-
nous basis, was a sort of tribunal pro-
cession marked by an incident of most
striking interest The locomotive draw :
ing the train flew the crimson and
white flag of reborn Poland. Although
the soldiers filling the cars wore the
Russian uniform in which they had
come to France together with the
medals conferred upon them by the
ear they chartered in Polish and
Polish colors we're pinned on their
! breasts.
GERMANS SURPRISED.
At every station at which the train
stopped, enLnusldStlC CTo"uS 6Teetcu
them. Then as the train came into
a large station in the central part of
France, strange cries were heard from
an opposite track of the railway
Twenty German prisoners all from
Posen who were employed in unload
ing freight cars yelled with surprise
as they behold the train bearing the
White Eagle Of Poland and the Polish
national colors.
Their surprise turned into bewilder-
ment, a. In answer to their cries, there
popped out Of tho windows of every cal
the heads Of Russian soldiers. wearing
caps of the Russian army yet trimmed
without exception with the Polish col.
ors. News OF the formation Of the new
autonomous Polish army was given, and
to q man the Polish-G German prison
ers threw down their working utensil,
and begged to be allowed to Join theil
brothers In arms for the independence
pf Poland
It was only with the utmost difficult,
that they were made to understand
that under the International laws o
war. they a. prisoners. could not b,
allowed to take UP arms on French soil
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Carly building. Nervous troubles an,
diseases Of women and children . spe
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