CAPTURE OF MEMEL.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13732, 22 March 1915, Page 5

CAPTURE OF MEMEL.

STREET FIGHTING

ENEMY REPULSED NEAR

• PRZEMYSL

deceived March 22, 0.5 a.m.) Petrograd, March 21. Official —Memel was captured after fcreet fighting in which the inhabitants tarticipated.

The Germans attacking in close order near Mytsyniec, north eastward of Przemysl. were routed' with enormous loss-

The 39th Houved Division was severely defeated southward of Ciezkowice, Galicia.

A sorties from Przemysl was driven back with serious losses.