CABLEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 July 1915, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

I [eLECTIUC X£LK(jItAPH —COITHIOHI - i [l'El! I'UKBS ASSOCIATION.] Received This Day U.l.j a.m. RIOTS IN PORTUGAL. There is much rioting m the Douro province owing to a clause in the treaty of commerce between England and Portugal, allowing the southern districts to export cheap wine under tlio name ol "port." The Douro producers demand that the treaty not be ratilied and that the name "port" lie lefibricted to genuine fullbodied Port wine. One thousand men, armed with scythes, axes, rifles, bludgeons, and tlynimite bombs, are invading the tow lis. burning public buildings, making botilires ol the records, robbing the rail way stations, smashing the wine depots and breaking open the casks of alcohol and wine from the South. 'The troops fired oil the mob at Lamego killing thirteen.