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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 816, 1 March 1909, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

MOCKING THE DEAD, ■» — DISGRACEFUL SCENES AT A CARNIVAL. THE PORTUGUESE TRAGEDY. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH — COPYRIGHT.] [PEB I*iLBBB ASSOCIATION.] (Received March I, 8.10 a.m.) Lisbon, February 28. Two hundred arrests were made, and many people were wounded at a carnival in Lisbon. Mobs joined masqueraders, and stoned the police for interfering with the revellers, who were impersonating the late King Carlos and the late Crown Prince of Portugal's assassins, and simulating their obsequies with coffins, skeletons, and blasphemous songs. The military helped to quell the . ; : riot. ' . ;