PORTUGAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 March 1916, Page 5

PORTUGAL.

OFFICIAL DECLARATION OF WAR. London, March 10. A German wireless message states that diplomatic relations between Germany and Portugal have been broken •*• Liston, March 10. Portugal will call up her naval reservists immediately. The Minister at Madrid has notifbd the Portuguese Government that Germany considers herself in a state of war with Portugal, and the Spanish Government has been entrusted with the charge of German interests in Portugal and Portuguese interests in Germany. Official.—Germany has declared war e& Portugal. "BRITAIN'S VASSAL^" MUTILIATED EXCUSES. FOR DECLARING WAR. - * Received March 12, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, March 11. The German declaration to Portugal says that the Portuguese Government, since the outbreak of the war, by actions conflicting neutrality and supported by Germany's enemies, allowed British troops, four times, to march through Mozambique; forbade the coaling of German ships; allowed British warshipß extensive sojourns in Portuguese ports, and the use af Madeira as a point d'appui for the ffeet; sold war munitions to the Entente Powers and a destroyer to the British; the German cables were interrupted and other hostile acts were committed in Angola; and finally Portugal seized German ships in Portuguese ports. The Portugue/.' Government had openly showed itself to ba Britain vassal.

PORTUGUESE INTERESTS LOOKED AFTER BY SPAIN. Received March 12, 5.5 p.m. Londtn, March 11. The Spenkh Amboscador at Berlin pnd Lbbon are tr.kins; over the respective Portuguese embassies ag a result sf Germany's declaration of war. GERMAN PRESS ANNOYED. WITE FOSEIGN OFFICE TACTICS. Received March 12, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, March 11. The German press i- dissatisfied with the Foreign Office attitude towards Portugal, and declares thai the Foreign Office c»uld, by tactful handling, have detached Portgual fram England.