Port Wine Riots
PORTUGUESE RUN AMOK. TROOPS FIRE ON THE MOB. THIRTEEN FATALITIES. United Prkss Association. (Received SKIS a.m.") London, July 2/. There is much rioting in the IXraro province owing to the clause in the Treaty of Commerce between England and Portugal allowing the .southern districts to export cheap eiu<3 under the name of Port Douro. The producers demand that the treaty ha not ratified, and that the Port 'o lestricted to genuine full-bodied Port.
A thousand people, armed -> ith scythes, axes, rifles, bludgeons, and dynamite bombs, are invaduig the towns, burning public mildings, making bonfires of the.reeu ds, met bing the railway stations, smashing the wine depots, and breaking the casks of alcohol from the south.
Troops fired on the mob at Latnego killing thirteen.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 75, 28 July 1915, Page 5
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127Port Wine Riots Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 75, 28 July 1915, Page 5
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