PORTUGUESE REVOLT
AEROPLANES IN ACTION
INSURGENTS HOLD OUT
(United Presi Association.—Copyright.) (Received 9th February, noon.)
PAEIS, Bth February.
Messages fronfc the Portuguese frontier emphasise that the revolt is spreading. The whole country is now in a ferment. A general railway strike has been proclaimed. Sailors from the cruisers. Vasco Di Gama and'Carvalho Aranja have mutinied and occupied several quarters in Lisbon. Fierce fighting is going on. The Government is using a large number of aeroplanes to bomb insurgent positions. Despite the violent bombardment the insurgents at Oporto maintain their hold of the city. The bulk of the garrison has joined the movement and has been reinforced from Valencia in the teeth of heavy Government fire from the south bank of the River Douro. Many civilians in Oporto have been wounded by ma-chine-gun fire. The insurgents demand the abolition of Senor Carmona's dictatorship. The latter retorted by ordering the arrest of 150 journalists and publicists in Lisbon, alleged to be implicated in the revolution.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 33, 9 February 1927, Page 9
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