THE LEMBERG RISING.
BOYS FIGHT TO FREE THE CITY. [ELBCTHIC TELEORAPH —COPYRIGHT.] (Per Press Association). Received this day, 9.5 a.m. London, December 3. An English war correspondent who v.jsited Lemberg telle an astonishing story of how schoolboys liberated the city .from the Ruthenians. Four boys began the rising and attacked a Ruthonian sentry and captured a stock of revolvers. Other boys joinedi in the fighting which spread through the whole city. The' boys got the uper hand by capturing some machine-guns and eventually capturing the Post Office. The lighting lasted a fortnight. Finally Polish troops arrived and the Ruthenians quitted the city.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 5 December 1918, Page 3
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102THE LEMBERG RISING. Levin Daily Chronicle, 5 December 1918, Page 3
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