A short text related to the unveiling of a monument to Poles killed on the fields of World War I. The monument was unveiled in the Old Town and is to replace the old monument with inscriptions in Czech (Source: "Dziennik Polski", Czeski Cieszyn 1939, R: 6, no. 187, p. 3, after: Silesian Digital Library).

A modernised reading of the text

Unveiling of a monument to Poles killed in the World War in the Old Town.

In these days, the former commissar of the Staré Město municipality in the Fryštát district, a prominent activist and Czechoslovakian, forester Czižek, was resettled to the so-called Protectorate. His house and beautiful garden became Polish property. The population of Staré Město, well aware of the chauvinistic rule of the Czech commissar, is now beginning to put municipal affairs in order. During the Czech era, a memorial in the Old Town to those killed in the World War was erected in the Czech style.

The then Czech commissioner ordered the names of the fallen Poles to be engraved in Czech. This clear document of Czechisation of the thoroughly Polish municipality has now been removed thanks to the initiative of the current government commissioner, Mr Lukosz. A new monument with Polish inscriptions has been erected through the efforts of the municipality and will be ceremonially unveiled on Sunday, the 16th of this year, at 10 a.m. in the morning.