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THE SEIZURE OF GERMAN STEAMERS. INFERNAL MACHINE IN AN INTERNED LINER. TREATY DENOUNCED. PORTUGAL READY FOR EVENTUALITIES. [TTiv’T»*t- Pwvnpi 1 (Received 8.50 a.m.) Lisbon, February 2/. The Premier, in tb e Chambobr of Deputies, justified the using of German steamers on the ground of the economic necessity. He added that an infernal machine was found in a Xoideutscher liner below the boilers, which would have blown up the ship the moment it left its moorings. The explosion was averted, hut the machinery was found to be mined. Senlior Castor urged the denunciation of the German-Portuguese Treaty, adding: "We are ready for all eventualities.” (In October a partial mobilisation of the army was ordered, and a general inclination was shown to join in the European fray on the side of the Entente.)
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 70, 28 February 1916, Page 5
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132PORTUGAL Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 70, 28 February 1916, Page 5
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