RIOTS IN PORTUGAL
TROUBLE OVER WINE EXPORTS TROOPS FIRE ON THE MOB By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Lisbon, July 27. There lias been muck rioting in tlio Douro Province owing to a clause in tlio treaty of comiucrce between England and Portugal allowing southern districts to oxporfc cheap wine under the namo of port. The Douro producers demand that the treaty should not be latified and tliat export of port be restricted to genuine, full-bodied port. A thousand men, armed witli scythes, axe 6, rifles, bludgeons, and dynamito bombs are invading towns, burning public buildings, i-ntl making bonfires of tha records, mobbing the railway stations, smashing wine depots, and breaking casks of alcohol from the south. The troops fired on tho mob as Lamego, killing thirteen.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2526, 29 July 1915, Page 6
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124RIOTS IN PORTUGAL Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2526, 29 July 1915, Page 6
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