PORTUGAL AND ENGLAND.
MORE PORTUGUESE OUTRAGES.
BRITISH-VESSELS CAPTURED.
MARTIAL LAW IN MASHONA-
LAND.
Capetown, April 20. Intelligence has been received that the Portuguese authorities have seized the Mashonaland mails; also, that they fusilladed and captured six vessels, but replaced their ensigns.
The Englishmen who were on board were taken prisoners.
Ow ; ng to the action of the Portuguese authorities martial law has been proclaimed in Mashonaland.
Lisbon, April 20.
The Governor of Mozambique has communicated with the Government concerning the seizure of mails and vessels by the Portuguese authorities in Mashonaland.
He declares that the Rhodes Company has broken the recently arranged 'modus vivendi, therefore the Portuguese had done the same.
He mentions that several Englishmen have been taken prisoners ; also that a tug belonging to Mr Johnson, tbe British A,gent in Zambesi, had been seized, and the British ensign lowered.
He declares that hereafter only vessels; flying the Portuguese flag will be allowed on the Pungaweri river, which leads into the territory claimed by the. British South African Company.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 92, 22 April 1891, Page 5
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