CAPTURE OF MEMEL
AMBASSADORS’ CONFERENCE INFORMED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright PARIS, January 16. (Received Jan. 17, at 8.5 p.m.) When the irregulars reached the centre of Memel there was a violent combat for the High Commissioner's offices. The High Commissioner, owing to the numerical superiority of the invaders, ordered the Memel force to ceass firing, and a truce was arranged. A neutral zone was established. The Commissioner sent the leader a strong protest against the coup de force. The Ambassadors' Conference will deal wiitih the situation to-morrow. —A. and N.Z. Cable. ' BERLIN, January 16. The Lithuanians have proclaimed that they occupied Memel after the garrison surrendered. They took prisoner seven French and 15 Memel soldiers. They repeat that they are not fighting the Entente. —A. and N.Z. Cable. , y
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18764, 18 January 1923, Page 7
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