PORTUGUESE MUTINY.
TROUBLE IN. THE NORTH. By Telezraph-Press Assoctation-Coprrieht - Madrid, December 22. Reports from Vigo state that there has been a monarchical outbreak amongst tho infantry in the barracks at Braga in Northern Portugal. A colonel and a captain were wounded. Thirty-seven men were arrested. A severe censorship of the press has been enforced. The earliest advices attributed tho meeting to bo against punishments inflicted. AN END TO LENIENCY.Lisbon, Dccembor 23. The mutineers at Braga resentttf tho discipline and entrenched tho barracks. They were oventually overawed and sent to Oporto. _ Tho Minister for War, Scnhor Castio, in the Chamber, suggested that (he insubordination was the result of tho AntiRepublican atmosphere in Iho district. Ho intended io repeal the lenient clauses in the military code, and declared that an undisciplined army was merely a mob and there was great danger in its use.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1320, 26 December 1911, Page 5
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