The draft into “Service to Poland” is announced (3 April 1948), with reports from Poznań, Warsaw, and Łódź portraying it as an honorable duty. Warsaw: the construction of the cross-city railway tunnel progresses. Gdańsk: repair work is carried out on the ship named “Warta”, salvaged from the harbor basin in Gdynia. The premiere of Wanda Jakubowska’s film “Ostatni etap”.