Marching on Konigsberg
OCCUPATION OF TILSIT.
(Received 11.35 a.m.)
St. Petersburg, August 27. It is officially announced that the Russians have occupied Tilsit. (Tilsit, a town of Prussia, is at the junction of the Tilse and the Niemen (the latter being crossed hy a long bridge) 60 miles N.E. of Konigsherg. Manufactures machinery, iron, paper, leather and sugar. There is a large trade in grain. Population: 21,500. The famous treaty of Tilsit between Napoleon and the Emperor of Russia was arranged here on a raft on the river in 1807).
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 9, 28 August 1914, Page 5
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