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Show POLISH TROOPS TAKE LEMBERG Galician Capital Sacked , and Jews Murdered, Is t Charge Made. l!y The Associated Press. 13KULIN, Wednesday, Nov, 27. The charge that the Polos, after capturing Lcmbcrg, the Galician capital, sacked the Jewish quarter, where tiie victims numbered num-bered several thousand, is made by the Lemoerg correspondent of the Berlin Tayeblatt, who says he left tile Galician city November 1'4. He telegraphs his newspaper from Iireslau as follows; "Since Friday, Imberg. which has been the scene of desperate street fighting. fight-ing. Is aajain in the hands or the Poles, after having been stubbornly defended by the t'krainlans. The casualties among the soldiers and civilians are estimated as in excess of looo, a large section of the inner city was completely deal roved. "Imnifdiately upon entering the city the Poles proceeded to sark and burn' the Ghetto district. The streets were filled wit h the charred bodies of murdered Jews, many of whom, in the frenzy of despair, had leaped from the burning I buildings, which were surrounded bv Pol- ' !sh troops. 'Die polish authorities declined de-clined to take measures to ha it the 1 sUuimaer. polish lemons roped off the! pireeis leading to the Ghetto and method- i if-ally proceeded 10 pillage, rapine and ! burn in t;.- j "Tne 1 'oils b au I bori ties are ' attempting ' to Maine uniformed bmidits for the poL-roms. although It Is commonly known (bat t ho terrorists are not only amply snj-.plif.i w-i;h anus and ammunition, but that th'-y ibreatened tb" Jews in the' event Weinberg was captured," ! |