Austria.
LIBERATION OF LEMBURG. BY SCHOOL BOYS. (Received 5, 8.55 a.m.) 7 London, Dec. 3. An English War Correspondent who visited Lemberg, tells an •• astonishing story of how schoolboys liberated the city from the Ruthe nians. Four boys began a rising and ' attacked a Ruthenian sentry. They captured a stock of revolvers ana other boys joined in the fighting which spread through tile whole of the city. The boys got the upper hand by capturing, machine-guns. Eventually they seized the Post . Office. The fighting lasted for a fortnight. Finally Polish troop# arrived and Ruthenians quitted the city.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VIII, Issue 312, 5 December 1918, Page 5
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