RIOTS AT LISBON.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13673, 11 April 1908, Page 5

RIOTS AT LISBON.

FIRING, ON UNARMED .ORQWDS.;

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. LISBON, April 10. Cabinet has ordered a searching inquiry into the election riots. The allegation is made that the municipal guard fired a volley on the un-, armed] crowds. The- guard wounded five soldiers belonging to a detachment marching past San dDomingo Square, which, was the scene of the drier *riot»

It is stated that the guard there fired 170 shots, aiming generally at the ground. Seven hundred arrests have been made, including many of -the proletariat, who were found to be in possession of large sums of motley. ;