RIOTING IN PORTUGAL.
DISPUTE AMONG WINE-UROW-ERS. ( (United Press Association- ■Gooyright.) LISBON, July 27. There is much rioting in the Dourno province owing to a clause in the treaty of commerce between England and Portugal, allowing southern districts to export cheap wino under the name of port. Dourno producers demand that the treaty shall bo ratified and port restricted to eronuino fullbodied poft. A thousand men armed with scythes, axes, rifles, bludgeons, and dynamite bombs, aro invading the towns, burning public buildings, making bonfires of records, robbing railway stations, smashing wino depots, and breaking casks of alcohol from the south. Th'e Troops fired on tiio 1 mob at Laincgo, killing thirteen.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3994, 29 July 1915, Page 6
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110RIOTING IN PORTUGAL. Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3994, 29 July 1915, Page 6
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