THE BRAZILIAN BATTLE.
CITY FURIOUSLY BOMBARDED. By Tclcgraph-Pre6S Association-Oopyr IgntRio de Janeiro, Decemher 11. Tho residents wero awakened at 5 o'clock on Sunday morning, when the mutineers on tho scout ship Rio Grando do Sul again .furiously bombarded the city. The shore batteries responded. .Firing continued till 1 in tho afternoon. A" number of tho combatants were wounded. The inhabitants are panic-stricken, and are fleeing.' The new market was wrecked. A shell wounded General Barreta, commander of tho garrison. The Rio Grande do Sul is a scout cruiser of 3100 tins displacement, built at Elswick in 1009. Sho has a speed of a. knots, and is armed with ten 4.7 in. guns, six 3-pountlers, ami two above-water torpedo tubes. Her comolement would probably bo from 250 to 300 men. A s;ster shin, the Bahia, was iilso built at the same time. ■ , ... It will Ijo remembered that in November the crews of tho Brazilian Dreadnoughts Minas Geraes -md Sao Paolo mutinied, together with those on four other .warships of tho Brazilian Navy, which is the most. powerful in Sourh America. The mutineers surrendered on an amnesty being granted by the Government. - ,
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 998, 13 December 1910, Page 5
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190THE BRAZILIAN BATTLE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 998, 13 December 1910, Page 5
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