Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-12-02
COL. FAUNTLER0Y
TO SPEAK HERE
Famous Aviator Will Address
Meeting at st. Hedwig's Hall
Tonight for Cause of Poland.

Colonel p. Cedric Fauntlcroy will
speak to the Polish people of Wilmington
at 80 O'Clock this evening III st. He'd
Wigs Hall, Sycamore street and Maryland
avenue. With him will be Rev. Col.
Joseph l.. Jaworski, dean OF the Polish
Army from America, who has been dis
tinguished by the French and Polish
governments for services rendered dur
ing three years at the front.
Colonel Fauntleroy, who is command
er of the famous kosciuszko Squadron of
the Polish Army, and who will speak IN
the interest of the European Relief Coun-
ellis need of S23 900, 600 to feed and care
for starving and i'll children of Eastern
and Central Europe, was so desired by
Soviet authorities that a reward of TO-
OO0.00O rubles was offered for his cap
ture, dead or alive.
General Budenny's failure to take
Lemberg, when the Bolsheviki made the
August drive upon Warsaw. is attributed
bv Lcnine and 1rOtSky chiefly to the
tight against the Cossacks made by the
Polish air forces. Polish army intelligence
officers discovered the circulars ISSUED
from Moscow that offered the reward for
Col Fauntleroy. Before sailing for Ameri-
ca the commander of the squadron was
decorated by Chief of State Pilsudsky
with the "Nirtuiti Militari. the highest
military award of the Polish government.
Col Fauntleroy, who went to Poland
from France directly after the armistice,
received III pay, at the present rate of
exchange. owing To the low value of the
Polish mark. about Sl6 month. Col,
Fauntlcrov has made more than 1000
flights with three armies-the French,
American and Polish. He has been up in
more than 5000 planes. He was mem
her Of the Lafayette Flying Corps, and
after America $ entrance into the war,
he Joined Captain Eddie Rickenbacker' =
famous HAT in the Ring squadron
When the Poles in 1919 requested three
technical officers from the American air
service Col. Fauntleroy, then a major,
volunteered 10 90. He became so enthusi-
astic over the Poles and their cause that
ne resigned from $1,000 year engineer
ing position to accept So n month in the
Polish air forces. With Captain Ma ron
c. Cooper. of jacksonville. Fla, former
chief of the Hoover Food Mission to
t,ahcia,he organized the now world famous
kns. iuszko Squadron, the only organiza-
ton ever awarded the virtuiti milit ar
a> unit This squadron. in citation last
week. was given the major credit for the
defeat Of General Budenny's advance on
l.cmherg breaking the morale OF the
Bolshcvist troops and allowing the Polish
troops in the north TO advance and sweep
the invader out of the occupied territory.
Col. Fauntlerov was put in command of
all air forces on the southern front and
was recently cited { or planning and lend
ing the air campaign that resulted in the
complete rout of General Budenny.
II will be back AT the front when the
spring fighting begins. said Col. Fsunt-
leroy Meanwhile am doing the biggest
thing n my power for Poland by convey
ing an understanding Of the country =
need for food to TIA american people
More than a million Polish children
face starvation this winter unless they
receive continued American aid ! have
offered nv services without reserve
to Herbert Hoover in this effort 70
raise the funds necessary to continue the
fight against starvation and misery in
war-torn Poland.