Monument to the Polish volunteers who fell in the Third Battle of Artois, May 9, 1915, at La Targette. Across the front of the monument is inscribed "Za Wasza I Nasza Wolnosc", For your freedom; for our freedom. © 2013 by John M. Shea
Across the front of the monument is inscribed "Za Wasza I Nasza Wolnosc", For your freedom; for our freedom.À la memoire des volontaires Polonais tombés au champs d'honneur sur les collines de l'Artois le 9 Mai 1915Monument renové 1994In memory of Polish volunteers fallen on the fields of honor / killed in action on the hills of Artois May 9, 1915Monument renovated 1994
"While Vienna was beflagged and rejoicing at the signature of the Ukrainian Peace, the Polish press in Warsaw and Lublin appeared with heavy black borders in mourning for the rape of Cholm. A general strike was declared in Warsaw, Cracow, and Lemberg on February 14 [1918]; the Polish Council of Ministers resigned and the three regents, Prince Lubomirski, Archbishop Kakowski, and Count Ostrowski, issues a manifesto in language savouring of the mediaeval: 'Before God and before the World; before men and the tribunal of history; before the German people and the peoples of Austria-Hungary, the Polish Council of Regency now raises its protest against the new partition of Poland, refuses to give its recognition, and brands the step as an act of violation'."
Nearing the end of fruitless negotiations with Russia, the Central Powers signed a peace treaty with the Ukrainian People's Republic at Brest-Litovsk on February 9, 1918. Desperate for food supplies, and expecting them from the new Ukraine, Austria understandably rejoiced, even as Polish nationals, hoping for their own nation, one that included Cholm, protested.
Brest-Litovsk: The Forgotten Peace; March 1918 by John W. Wheeler-Bennett by John W. Wheeler-Bennett, page 234, publisher: The Norton Library, publication date: 1971, first published 193
1918-02-14, 1918, February, Poland, Polish volunteers
