RISING IN PORTUGAL
300 CASUALTIES. (Unite' 1 Press Association—By Electric 'Telegraph.—Copyright.] London, August ' The T'iines’s Lisbon icorrefipondent reports that fifty were killed and 250 were wounded during the suppression of the rebellion. Heavy fighting continued throughout the day in certain city streets, in which shattered windows, bullet-marked buildings, remains of; trenches and gun emplacements mark the scene of the struggle. There was great damage clone in the neighbourhood of the Fortress of Saint George, which the rebels bombarded; and also in the vicinity of the Presidential Palace, and the loyal barracks, over which, the rebels flew, bombing and machine-gunning, after the bombardment.
The loyalists shelled the rebels out of the barracks, and forced them into Edward the Seventh Park, where they entrenched, hut they were dislodged hy -a mass attack of tanks two infantry and two cavalry regiments, and aeroplanes. The remnants of the rebels estahished positions at the Zoo, necessitating further vigorous measures.
A rebel aeroplane bombed a village, killing two children, and wounding civilians, after which the pilot, like those who ijombed the paldce and barracks, flew '.to Spain. There ha veh been five hundred arrests. %
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1931, Page 5
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