Excerpts from the Polish chronicles in the magazine 'News from Poland'. This issue describes the canonical visitation of the Polish Church in London. The course of the ceremony is summarised, as well as the most important people invited to it. In addition, the consecration of the foundation stone of the first Polish church in Porto Alegre in Brazil is mentioned, as well as the issue of the grave of the Polish scholar Tadeusz Chrostowski in that country. In Germany, in turn, the first Polish gymnasium was opened, and in Hungary a plaque commemorating Korybut-Woroniecki was unveiled (Source: "Wieści z Polski", Warsaw 1932, R: 6, no. 11, pp. 15-18, after: Jagiellonian Digital Library).

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Polonia abroad.

England

Canonical visitation of the Polish Church in London. On Sunday 6 November, Bishop Butt, on behalf of Cardinal Bourne, performed a canonical visitation of the Polish Church in the presence of Mr Ambassador Skirmunt, representatives of the Embassy and Consulate General, the Polish Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth from Enfield, and a crowd of compatriots who filled the church to capacity on the occasion of the national holiday. The Rector celebrated a solemn Mass in honour of Ambassador Skirmunt, who is celebrating ten years of diplomatic work as an MP and later the first Ambassador of the independent Polish Republic in London on 10 May.

In a beautiful speech in English, the Bishop pointed out the purpose of the visitation to the church, which is prescribed by church law, congratulated Poles on such a beautiful church, where they can praise God and satisfy their spiritual needs in their mother tongue, and, referring to the ten years of meritorious work of the first Polish ambassador in London, thanked Mr Skirmuntt for his services to the Polish church and his care for it. After prayers for the departed compatriots and a solemn blessing given by the Bishop, the 'God, Thou Shalt Have Poland' was sung, after which the Bishop inspected the sacristy, the interior of the church, the Mission facilities and the halls, expressing his satisfaction and admiration for the work done on the new church and the change for the better, for, as the Bishop noted, the former church on Mercer Street had been a great success. Bishop, the former church in Mercers Street was the poorest of all the churches in the Archdiocese of Westminster; it was a pity that such a church was not acquired 20 years sooner, when the Polish colony in London was much more numerous.

After a tour of the Mission building, a breakfast was held at the Rector's house in the Bishop's honour, attended among others by the Ambassador, Consul Hulanicki, Councillor Orłowski and the First Secretary of the Embassy, Mr Wszelaki.

Brazil

In the Brazilian forest, the grave of a Polish scientist Brazilian Poles have launched a campaign to commemorate the Polish naturalist and traveller, Tadeusz Chrostowski, who died during a scientific expedition to the Parana forest.

Sent out 10 years ago, in the spring of 1922, the 'Polish zoological expedition to Brazil' collected abundant natural history material for Polish museums. Tadeusz Chrostowski took part in the expedition. He contracted malaria during the river journey. He died en route on 4 April 1923. He was buried in the forest by the roadside in the village of Pinheirinhos, 72 km from Foz do Iguassu.

Today, after almost 10 years, he still lies where he was buried. The idea was therefore put forward to raise funds to bring and bury the remains of the distinguished Polish naturalist in the cemetery in Ponta Grossie or Curitiba. New Polish church in Brazil Porto Alegre reports: With a large Polish colony in attendance, Archbishop Becker consecrated the cornerstone of the first Polish church dedicated to Our Lady of Czestochowa.

The Archbishop gave a speech on this occasion in which he raised the deeds and merits of the Polish people for civilisation. The Revd Canon Peres then took the floor, calling for donations for the construction of the Polish church. The president of the Union of Polish Associations, Dr Aleksander Kochański, also spoke, calling for the Polish colony to unite under the banner of the union.

Czechoslovakia

All Souls' Day in Cierlicko. Many weeks have passed since the tragic September Sunday that ended the triumph of the Polish wings with a sharp and ruthless cut, laying the dead bodies of Lt. Żwirka and Ing. Wigura in Cierlicko Dolne, but the memory of that day has not faded.

Throughout this time, Poland has continued to remember its heroes vividly, and the best evidence of this remembrance are the numerous academies and ceremonies in honour of the heroes of the "Challenge of 1932", held throughout the country to this day, the fervent campaign to donate to the Żwirka and Wigura fund, and the desire to honour them in the warmest and best way possible, so vividly expressed, for example, in the abundant collection of metal for the bell in Cierlicko. All Souls' Days proved once again powerfully how deep into the soul of Poland the silver apparatus of R.W.D. 6. with its broken wings has plunged, much deeper than into the soil of Cierlicko.

Cierlicko Dolne lit up and flowered on All Souls' Day. The people there brought two wooden crosses to the site of the disaster, and although the shattered bodies of the heroes rested far from this gloomy place - huge crowds, unable to go to the grave of the heroes, rushed to these crosses. On All Saints' Day, a fire brigade from nearby Stanislovice kept guard at this grave without bodies but full of souls, maintaining order and giving the first shot of honour.

Lots of candles and lamps were lit, and a mound of bouquets and wreaths of chrysanthemums grew up. Who was laying those flowers? Who lit those lights? - Mostly poor miners and villagers from across the Olza River. On All Souls' Days they went to this "grave", as they went in their dreams to the Polish land with these flowers and candles, throwing over the border a bridge of deep, unbreakable love in a gesture that was so characteristic...

And in a year's time the silvery sounds of the Żwirki i Wigury bell will ring out over the two wooden crosses. It will be the voice of the Homeland that remembers. (zet). Decoration with the Cross of Independence of an 1863 veteran in Kutná Hora. In Kutná Hora, the military attaché of the Polish Embassy in Prague, Lieutenant Colonel Dipl. Czerwiński, decorated a Czechoslovak citizen, Jan Macháček, veteran of 1863, with the Cross of Independence, awarded to him by the reverend President of the Republic for his participation in the uprising.

The solemn ceremony was attended by representatives of the local and municipal authorities and the immediate family of the decorated, who is now 92 years old. Scouting ceremony in Olza, at the junction of three borders. From Rybnik we report: On the 22nd of last month, a ceremony was held in the village of Olza in the Rybnik district of G. This was organised by Mr Rohrbach, the chairman of the Friends of the Scout Association in Olza, the head of the local school. The ceremony was attended by the invited consul of the R.P. from Mor. Ostrava Dr. K. Ripa with Vice Consul Mr. Zajączkowski and Dr. Synowiecki. Consul Dr. Ripa presented both men's and women's teams with scout pennants and called on the young people of Olza, a town on the border of three borders, to foster scouting ideals.

Through the establishment of a scout organisation in Olza, situated at the confluence of two Slavic rivers Odra and Olza, the idea of scouting will spread not only in the region, but also to our compatriots living on the other side of the border.

France

In the flats of the Polish consulate in Strasbourg, a ceremony was held to present the Cross of the Order "Poloniae Restitutae" to the well-known French journalist Ed Boursson, a great friend of Poland. Italy Count Negroni Prati Morosini, an Italian who at one time donated the heart of the Commander-in-Chief Tadeusz Kościuszko to Poland, died in Medjolan. The relics were inherited by the deceased from his grandmother, to whom Kościuszko had bequeathed his heart. Kościuszko's heart is now located at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, in the private chapel of the President of the Republic. Canada A wise Canadian judge in the city of Calgary, Mr Tweedle, ruled that "selfishness diminishes a man's worth" when a Polish émigré living there applied for Canadian citizenship.

It turned out that this émigré, who had been living in Calgary for eight years, with a profitable job and moreover considerable cash in the banks, had disowned his old parents and his wife and children, who were in distressing conditions in Poland, by refusing to help them. A judge with jurisdiction in Canada to grant citizenship found that such an individual was not a desirable acquisition for Canada and refused to grant citizenship.

Germany

Opening of a Polish gymnasium The opening of a Polish gymnasium took place in Bytom, as we report elsewhere. This is the first Polish secondary school in the German Reich at all. It was set up by the Polish people themselves, is a private institution, and so far only difficulties have been encountered on the part of governmental and administrative factors to prevent or at least delay its opening. In Opole Silesia, the Polish population numbers more than half a million heads.

The population is predominantly peasant and agricultural, and a Polish grammar school can only contribute to the education of a group of intelligentsia based on the local soil. The opening ceremony of the Bytom gymnasium took place today in a solemn ideological mood. The former edifice of the editorial office of the "Catholic" was turned over to the gymnasium; after the reconstruction, the school will have modern conditions: in addition to lecture halls, science and physics rooms, a gymnasium, a library and reading room, a school dining hall, etc. A dormitory was opened for the pupils. Prof. Dr. Nechay from Lviv was appointed director of the gymnasium.

The teaching staff consisted of Messrs Olejniczak, Kowal, Gembala, Przybylski, Moćkowiak, Dr Szwed, Henke, Nowak and Krzykała.

United States

A.P. An 18-year-old Pole plans an around-the-world flight. Edmund F. Serafin, 18, son of the Antoni Serafin family, who reside at 211 Grand Ave. is planning an around-the-world flight in a plane of his own design. The westbound flight is scheduled to begin in a month. The aim of the flight is to demonstrate the practicality of the lightweight monoplane. After arriving in the Pacific, the aeroplane will be transported to Japan, from where the aviator will fly to China, India, Italy, stop in Warsaw and from there fly to England, from where it will arrive in America.

Last year, the young aviator had an aeroplane accident, but undeterred by the setback, he continued the work in which his parents had helped him by donating the sum of $2,000. The Polish Highlanders Association of America funds a monument to Wladyslaw Orkan in Nowy Targ "The Polish Highlanders Association of Chicago has decided to honour the immortal singer of Podhale, the great poet-soldier, Wladyslaw Orkan by erecting a monument to him in the capital of Podhale, Nowy Targ.

To this end, the Association took the necessary funds for this purpose from the generosity of its members first of all, and then from the generosity of related organisations in America, and entrusted the creation of the monument to the artists Michał Jarończyk, Władysław Gawliński and Michał Kraus. The artists fulfilled the obligation imposed on them and produced a model of the monument. This model presents itself magnificently. Against the background of a tall, modernist-style column stands the powerful figure of the son of Podhale, Władysław Orkan.

In order to give our compatriots in exile the opportunity to see the monument, the Association organised a ceremony to unveil the model on 9 October this year. The ceremony was held in the hall of the Polish-Roman Catholic Union in Chicago, and was attended by a large number of Poles and representatives of Polish organisations in exile. The Polish Consulate was represented by Mr Fr. Brzęk. The unveiling of the monument was performed by Mr Józef Barć, replacing the absent President of the Association, Mr Olejniczek, and the commemorative speech was delivered by Mr Romaszkiewicz, President of the Polish National Union, and Father Walerjan Pach, Chaplain of the Polish Highlanders Association. The Sabała Highland Choir, the Władysław Orkan Highland Choir and the Haller Band performed a number of beautiful highland songs, and young people showed off their highland dances in highland costume.

A poem in Orkan's honour was recited with feeling by Mrs Franciszka Obrochta. Throughout the ceremony, the Polish community enthusiastically manifested their honour and tribute to the memory of the great poet. According to the news of the Polish-American press, the setting up of the monument in Nowy Targ will take place in July 1933, and a large number of American Poles will travel to Poland for the unveiling ceremony. Death of aviators A Polish aviator, Józef Kowalski, was killed in a plane crash over the town of Angram, New York. Kowalski was a mechanic pilot, aged 24. He had worked at the well-known Sikorsky aircraft works and was later employed by the management of Lloyd Bennett Aviation Field near New York. Richard Allan, a former member of the Tad. Allan, a former member of the Tad. Kosciuszko Air Squadron, aviation inspector for the United States Department of Commerce, decorated for his bravery in battle against the Bolsheviks in 1920, died in a plane crash while flying to celebrate his birthday.

Allan had jumped with a parachute at a low altitude, but the parachute failed to open. Polish film in New York From New York reports: Yesterday, under the patronage of the Polish consul general and in the presence of representatives of the consular corps and the foreign press, the opening of the Polish film department took place in the company of the American Capital Film Exchange. The department was initiated and founded by Eng Starczewski.

During the opening ceremony, the film 'Nameless Heroes' was screened. This fact is regarded here as evidence of the expansion and realisation of Polish export opportunities in the United States. 11. X. 1779. The Bar Confederate, Casimir Pulaski, dies wounded at the Battle of Savannah (United States). Pulaski was one of the few who did not lay down his arms and fought against the invading violence, until the Russian troops flooding all over Poland forced him to seek refuge outside his own homeland.

Having been disappointed by the help of Turkey, defeated by Russia in the war of 1774, Pulaski, after a few years' wandering in exile, offered his services in 1776 to the United States, fighting against England for its independence. Pulaski's bravado at the battle on the Brandywine River (11.8.1777) caused the Congress (Sejm) to appoint him commander of the entire US cavalry. However, the jealousy of American officers and a misunderstanding of the benefits of having larger cavalry units made Pulaski's job impossible and forced him to relinquish the position offered to him. Despite this, Pulaski did not abandon his continued fight for the freedom of the United States. During the summer of 1778, he formed a partisan legion and took part with it in the protracted war with the English. On October 11, a bloody assault took place at the siege of the Savannah harbour by the Americans and the French.

As the French column marched through the marshes to the Spring-Hill redoubt, the English, forewarned, opened murderous fire. The French leader was wounded, and a mad panic broke out in the ranks. In an effort to salvage the situation, Pulaski, who had remained in reserve, mounted his wounded mount and ran down to where the fiercest fighting was taking place. There, too, a shell from the last cannon reached him. He was transferred to the deck of an American ship - life was done and he found his grave in the ocean waves.

The grateful American people have not forgotten the gusto of our countryman, whom they honour alongside their national hero, Washington, just as they honour Lafayette and Kosciuszko. An expression of this gratitude is the monuments erected to Pulaski in American cities and, more recently, a special postage stamp bearing his likeness and a day dedicated to Pulaski and celebrated as a holiday. This year, 11 October as "Pulaski Day" was also solemnly celebrated, at the foot of monuments to the Polish and American hero with the participation of many thousands of Americans and Poles.

In West Point, to the sound of the Polish national anthem, American General Conner reviewed the alumni of the military academy (United States). The ceremony was held to commemorate Gen. Kaz. Pulaski.

Switzerland

Polish celebrations In Bern, ceremonies were held to commemorate the centenary of the passing of the remains of the Polish insurgent regiments across the Swiss border in 1831. At that time, Switzerland welcomed the Polish soldiers extremely kindly, and for two years maintained the troops at its own expense, still retaining their military organisation. Our Minister for Foreign Affairs arrived in Bern.

A. Zaleski, was received by the president of the Swiss confederation (this is the name of the Swiss republic), Mr Motta, and presented him with a bronze vase, made by the artist-sculptor Fr. Strynkiewicz. The vase features bas-reliefs depicting the arrival of the Polish Legion at the Swiss border, Kościuszko's tomb, a silhouette of Rapperswil Castle and an inscription in which Poland expresses its gratitude to Switzerland. At the top is a convexly carved Polish eagle. In his speech, min. In his speech, Min. Zaleski emphasised that Switzerland had been as willing to welcome the Polish army as it had been to welcome Kościuszko in 1815.

And Switzerland did not allow itself to be forced by our hostile powers to deport the Polish exiles, thus once again showing its disinterestedness and understanding for the hard-hit nation. In his reply, President Mott drew attention to the significant fact that two prominent Poles, who had acquired and legally retained Swiss citizenship, had become Presidents of the Republic of Poland - the late first President G. Narutowicz and the current Head of State, President Ign. Mościcki.

Turkey

Concerts by Poles The management of the Ankara radio station has organised a series of concerts by Mr and Mrs Maria and Mr Kazimierz Czekotowska. Maria and Kazimierz Czekotowski, who are singing professors at the Turkish Conservatory in Ankara. Pp. Czekotowskis are the authors of beautiful translations of songs by Moniuszko and Karłowicz into Turkish. These are probably the first translations of Polish songs into Turkish. HUNGARY A hostel for poor Poles was opened in Budapest, organised by Fr Danek.

The ceremony was attended by a large Polish colony and representatives of the Polish embassy. Unveiling of the plaque In Budapest, the capital of Hungary, a ceremony was held on 28 October to unveil a plaque to the Polish community. On 28 X, a ceremony was held in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, to unveil a plaque commemorating Father Michał Korybut-Woroniecki, a Pole and a hero of the struggle for the freedom of Hungary, who was executed by the Austrians in 1848.