THE LEMBURG POGROM

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 136, 5 December 1918, Page 7

THE LEMBURG POGROM

CLEARING OUT THE RUTHENIANS SCHOOLBOYS LIBERATE THE CITY. (USIIED FRESB ASSOCIATION COPTRIGHT.) I Adi. AKD !*,Z. CADU! ASSN. AMD KEUIER.) (Received December 5, 10.30 a.m.) _ LONDON, 3rd December. An English war correspondent who visited Lemburg (Galicia)-, tells ian astonishing story of how schoolboys liberated the city from the Rluthenians. Four boys began the' rising. They attacked the Ruthenian sentry and captured a stock of revolvers. boys joined them and the fighting spread over the whole city. The boys got the upper hand by capturing . machine-guns. Eventually they serzeS the post office. The fighting lasted for a fortnight, and finally Polish troops arrived- and the Ruthenians quitted the city.

[A pogrom (Jewish massacre) was reported from Lemburg on 28th November. The Jewish quarter, including the synagogue, was set on fire, and hundreds of men, women,- and children were killed, their bodies being thrown from the windows into the streets. Advices toi London from Berlin stated that 1100. Jews were murdered. Hundreds who had barricaded themselves in the synagogue were shot as they emerged from the windows. The. Polish Press Bureau admitted that forty Jews and a. dozen Christians were killed m the disorders and said that the perpetrators were a hundred released criminals, assisted, by deeerters. Hie report added "Fifty of these bandits were shot and fifteen hundred , imprisoned, of whom less than half were Poles."] .