Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1920 — POLAND SEEKS RECRUITS IN U. S. [ARTICLE]

POLAND SEEKS RECRUITS IN U. S.

* (Envoy Confers With Secretary of State Colby on . Subject. MANY OFFERS ARE RECEIVED Americana and Natives of Poland, Vetwans of the World War, Ready to Enlist—Kameneff Commands Entire Soviet Army. Washington, Aug. 13. —It was understood that Prince Lubomirskl, Polish envoy to the United States, had or would at a second conference to be held with the secretary of state ask authorization of the United States to accept the numberless offers of enlistment in the Polish army which are being received dally from all parts of the country by the Polish legation. The extent of the Polish request for War material and munitions, Polish officials said, may be made contingent upon a favorable response to the Polish request for permission to accept recruits from this country for the Polish forces. It was declared that the legation (was receiving many offers of enlistment not only from natives of Poland but also from Americans, veterans of the world war. Colby and Polish Envoy Confer. ; Secretary Colby and Prince ( *kL the Polish minister, held a long conference Thursday night a t the state department, it was learned. The conference was held a few hours after the Polish minister had announced that he not only would ask Immediate and material aid from the United States for his country, but thqi he also would seek to learn definitely Just what the American government meant by the statement in its note of August 10 to the Italian government that It would use “all available means” to maintain a free Poland. . Kameneff Red War Leader. Contrary to previous reports, Gen. Sergius Kameneff, and not General Brusiloff, commands the entire soviet force on the Polish front. In an Interceptetk wireless dispatch sent recently frjk Moscow by the soviet govreport that General Brusiloff, former commander of the Russian imperial 'armies against GerL many, was in command of the Soviet Varmy was characterized as “the misintentionally perverted Idea Jfc>ead by European and American Ttw&rgeols agencies.” 1 The wireless dispatch added that ■’there is not a single German officer In the whole of our army. It Is unnecessary to state that the ranks of the red army are always open to dll persons Irrespective of their national- 1 Ity, who consider It their duty to fight for the cause of communism against Itnperlallslc violence.” General Kameneff formerly commanded the troops fighting Kolchak on the eastern front and, according to the soviet wireless, It was as a result of hia victories in that area that he was promoted to hjs present command. During the war General Kameneff Served under the czar as chief of staff of the Fifteenth Russian army corps and 'later of the Third army. Joining the red force In April, 1918, he was military director in the Smolensk area before he became commander of the eastern front. General, 27, Commands Army. The bolshevist army on the Polish front is reported to be divided Into two armies, the northern in command of General Toucacheski, who is only twenty-seven years of age, and the southern commanded by General Yecoroff. Both commanders were officers in the czar’s army. General Brusiloff is known to be chief of a military council at Moscow which has been preparing military plans agafhst Poland. With him are associated many of the general staff officers of the old regime. One of the most successful bolshevik officers Is General Budenny, commander of cavalry, whose tactics on the Polish front, according to military authorities, largely have made posslIble the bolshevist successes in the south.