A MADDENED MOB.
RIOTING IN PORTUGAL. EXPORT OF SOUTHERN WINE. TREATY TERMS CAUSE TROUBLE. By Cable. — Press Association. — Co)>yri(jlit. (Hcccived July. 28, J). 15 a.m.) LISBON, July 27. There has been much rioting in Douro province owing to a clause in the Treaty of Commerce between England and Portugal, allowing the southern districts to export a cheap wine under the name of "Port." The Douro producers demand that the Treaty shall not be ratified, and that the export of port shall be restricted to the genuine full-bodied port. A thousand . men, armed with scythes, axes 1 ? rifles, bludgeons, and dynamite bombs, are invading the towns, burning public buildings and making bonfires of records, mobbing, railway stations, smashing wine depots, and breaking open casks of alcohol from the south. The troops tired on the mob at Lamcgo, killing 13.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 457, 28 July 1915, Page 3
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138A MADDENED MOB. Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 457, 28 July 1915, Page 3
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