THE FREEING OF LEMBURG
ROMANTIC STORY TOLD.
SCHOOLBOYS HEAD RISING.
A. and N.Z-Renter. LONDON. Dec. 4.
A British war correspondent who has visited Lembcrg supplies an astonishing story of bow schoolboys liberated the city from tho Knthenians. Four boys began the rising and attacked a Ruthenian sentry. They also captured a stock of revolvers; other boys joined in and tho fighting spread over the whole city. Tho boys got the upper hand by capturing machine-guns, and eventually seized the post office. The struggle lasted for a fortnight, and finally Polish troops arrived and tho Ruthenians quitted the city.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17026, 6 December 1918, Page 5
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