Numerous Jewish workers from Stalingrad and neighboring towns in Silesia were among those who recently received high Polish government awards for “their revolutionary activities in pre-war Poland and the part they played in the liberation” of Poland, according to a Yiddish-language broadcast from Warsaw. The radio commentator interviewed a number of Jews who, he said, had received the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta and the Officer’s Cross of the same Order.
Thirty five hundred tire tubes from the Petach Tikvah plant of the General Tire Company have been ordered by a Polish trade delegation, if was reported here from Poland. The delegation placed its order after a tour of the Petach Tikvah factory. The tubes will be shipped aboard a Polish vessel, the Marshalensky Gdynia.
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