New Britain herald., 1928-10-20
10TH ANNIVERSARY 0F PLES LIBERTY
Rslhsd Rrsdoa's Air With
 M d VoodroV Wilson

The Icm3IuIuB o&yu O1 thW mOutu aud the succeeding months mark enc of the greatest moments in the lives of the Polish people through out the world. the occasion being the 10th anniversary of the hrst ac- tual movements to liberate Poland after . period of more than 100 years of oppression and despotism. | nationwide celebration of tho e.. caAion is planned by the Polish pso- pie in which the Poles of New Brit ain will join handa.
 It was ten years ago that Fur key and Austria nrst voiced their desire to end the terrible conflict raging between European nations and tt WAS at that time that the Poles seized the opportunity to rout hs enemy forces in which they suc- ceedsd only after bitter fighting and established . provisional govern ment. This of course meant noth- ing without the sanction of the d. lied p0wers. but 1t at least added couraga to the Polish patriots to press the matter of liberating Po- land. finally completed at Versaillaa In 1919. when tho matter of . free and independent Polish nation with access to the sea was included in the II points of the wartime pres!- dent, Woodrow Wilson. as part of the peace treaty.
 But. between the time of succes- sive subjugation of the entente powsrs and the moment when the signaturss and seals were placed on the peace document. tho Polish na; ton had to look out for itself. Per. hAps at no other time in the his tory of Poland and for that matte. the history of any nation. was thers 70 much dons in 70 short space oi time.
 Poland in Chaotic State
 The country was left in . chaotic state by tho retreating troops of the Austrians and the Germans. Towna and farmlands were devastate1 and there were hundreds of thousands of people without shelter or food But. as necessity is the mother oi invention and the opportunity once again presented itself to the Polish people to become independent. nc time was lost. At first tho country represented . countless number oi small independencies. Each city, each town and each county went to work and selected from among its leading citizens and patriots men of integrity, men of ability and placed in them their entire con- ndencs to maintain order and ap- point officials for the admintstra. tisn of their local affairs. For the first time the Polish people. d. though not yet welded ay one in' dependent nation. felt tho blessinga of freedom, and despite deplorablt conditions, there was joy In the hearts Of everyone.
 Here was . country devastated by the ravases of war. peoplsd by mll' Mors, yet without anyone to man. Aes its affAirs, but living in hope ot becoming . free and Independent nation. Thers was . man of destiny who could unite these people and establish . temporary government aad give the people . provisional set of laws by which they could soyern the affairs of the country but he was imprisoned in Madge- burg for defyinE the commands oi the provisional enemy government His name was Marshal Joseph Pill sudshi in whom rested the hope o' the Polish people to bring order He was finally released from prison when the enemy troops were being routed by the people and went ie Warsaw, where he immediately se, to work forming . provtsional gov srnment.
 Bolshehks Driven Oupt
 Az soon as this task was com pieted, the eastern lands of Poland were invaded by Roisheviks and l' vas necessary to send an army te protect the people from further rav' ages. It was not an easy problem as tho flower of Polish manhood wal lest In the four-year conflict between Russian and Germany and Austria. | was up to youth and advanced sxe to protect. their country ano everyone abls to tote gun went tt the front, and for months before the f,nal ironing out of the peace pact, Poland had to form . barrier axainst the Boisheviks before aie from the allies came. and the ma dectslon of. the council of ambassa, dcrs that Poland was a free ahe Independent nation was made.
 There h every reason then tha' Poles all over the world join hand' at this time in celebration or tne time when the first movement ioi rfberating the nation were started.