CIVIL WAR IN PORTUGAL
REVOLUTIONARY FOOD RIOTS
GOVERNMENT OVERTHROWN
Madrid, December 9.
A wireless message states that following the revolutionary food riots Senor Costa's Government was overthrown, and a Provisional Government was established, under Senor Paes, exMinister for Works and Justice.—Aus.N.Z. "Cablo Assn;
A MILITARY DICTATORSHIP (Rec. December 10, 7.30 p.m.) Madrid, Decembor 9. The fighting began on Wednesday night, when tho revolutionary forces entrenched on tho heights dominating Lisbon; They consisted of three Infantry regiments,_ ono cavalry, regiment, two batteries of artillery, and officers of the Military School, with twenty field-guns. During the fighting seventy were killed and live hundred wounded. Many of tho shops wero pillaged. A military dictatorship lias been established. It is stated that Senor Machado will realign tho Presidency and join the new Government.— Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 66, 11 December 1917, Page 5
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