The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-03-27
LEMBERG FIGHT NOT STOPPED.
Even Armistice Fails to Bring
Peace.

sieges and captures through the hrst
five centuries of it's municipal exls-
tence, even the armistice has not
brought peace to Lemberg, winch
Ukranians are reported to have at
tackled" says a bulletin of the Ma
tional Geographic society.
Presidents of the city must walk
with a grim smile through the bat
tie torn promenades built on the
space left free by the demolition OF
the Notifications of the inner city
of Lemberg in 1911, at a time when
the citizens of the Galician capital
looked confidently for an era OF
peace.
.Lemberg, known as Lwow in Po-
lish and Leopolis in Latin, was
founded in the 18th century by
Ruthenian prince Casimir the
Great added it to his domain IN
1910 and bestowed upon the city
the charter and privileges known as
the Madgeburg rights.
.tWhen Constantinople fell It's
trade with the East f1ourished, but
it was all but engulfed in the revo-
,utions and maraudings which swept
over the Ukraine and parts OF TO
land during the last half of the sew
enteenth century-an earlier mani
festation of Bolshevism directed by
the Cossack hetman, Chmielnicka.
Charles XII of Sweden took
Lemberg, along with other Polish
cities when the ill-advised Angus
tus II was drawn into the Great
Northern war. Upon the first par
tition of Poland, in 1772, Lemberg
was allotted to Austria.
"In connection with the division
of Polish lands, the Empress Maria
Theresa wrote, prophetically, in
view of recent events, I have YIELD
ed. not wishing to make war, but
quite contrary to my convictions. l
hope that the monarchy may not
feel the effects of this after my
death
"Frederick the Great of Prussia
who had engineered the Partition,
did not take the Austrian monarch S
aualms seriously. She is always
weeping and always talking was
his comment.
..In the same year Austria came
forward with additional claims on
the ground that Prussia and Russia
we're availing themselves of the op-
1 portunity to acquire certain districts
for which they had long contended:
Therefore, despite her pangs of con-
science, the provident empress gain
ed possession of about 1900 square
miles of territory, to which she
gave the title of the kingdom OF
Galicia and Lodomeria, and made
Lemberg the capital.
Twelve years later Joseph II
whose futile ambitions caused his
reign to be compared to a man who
constantly desired to sneeze and
could not, established tht University
of Lemberg. This university became
one of the best known Polish insti-
tutions of learning.
One of Lemberg's parks bears the
name of the Polish patriot, Jan XII
linski, a shoemaker, who fought
bravely in 1896. He was captured
and taken to St. Petersburg. Fol-
lowing his release he returned to
his shoemaker's bench and when
custom was light he wrote his rec
objections, which form valuable
record of this. period.
"Lemberg, nearly as large as Den
yer, Colo, or Rochester, N. Y, be-
fore the war began, was the
fourth city Austria. 1t is 60 miles
east of Przemysl, and more than
$50 miles northeast of Vienna. 1t
lies on the banks off the Bug. Eigh-
ty-seven miles to the east is Tarno-
pol, near the Russian border, among
the first points of attack when the
Muscovites crossed the Petlew river,
which flows into Galician frontier.
''Scene of a popular uprising in
1S4S, Lemberg became the seat of
the Galician diet upon the establish
ment Of that body in 1851. Before
1914 it manufactured ironware, ma
,chinery, matches, candles, liquors,
chocolate, leather, bricks, and tiles,
Its commerce was largely in linen,
wool, oil, fax and hemp"