FATAL MISTAKE.
' BY PORTUGUESE. AND SPANISH : '; , : , 'SOLDIERS. 7 FIGHT ON THE FRONTIER. / BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT V a Lisbon, May 12, A gang engaged in . smuggling tobacco' from Spanish territory' into: tho Porta-' legre district of' Portugal n,t midnight mot a party of Portuguese Guards. • During thought, .Spanish .troops who woro in" pursuit of' tho smugglers , crossed.tho frontier, andiwere mistaken l;y the Guards for a'second gang of , smugglers. , A, terrible conflict ensueduntil tho error;,was,dis r : covered., ' .'' ■ i Th-e smugglers ' fled to the mountains, leaving several dead, including two women. Several soldiers On either side' were- killed or wounded. " . . ' ''
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 197, 14 May 1908, Page 7
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