WHY MEMEL WAS BOMBARDED.
RUSSIANS FIRED ON FROM HOUSES AND BARRICADES. INHABITANTS FLEE TO KONIOSBERG,' (Received 9.30 ajn.) PETROGRAD, March 21. It is officially announced that as the Russians advanced upon Mentel two regiments of the Landsturm defending the town were driven back. They mingled with the population, and the Russians on entering at 8 o'clock in the evening encountered a rifle fire from the houses and from behind barricades, civilians equally with the troops participating. _. The Russians then withdrew, and Mcmcl was subjected to » short bom.ardment. which ended the resistance, the town being-evacuated "ami' the inhabitants taking refuge in Konigsberg.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 69, 22 March 1915, Page 5
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