Portuguese Affairs
ARREST OF CHRISTIANS. LEADS TO RENEWAL OF WAR. CRUELTY OF INSURGENTS. My Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received 5, 11 p.m. London, March 5. The Baptist Missionary Society lias rc-ceived advices from Matadi, dated the middle of February, showing that after peace was declared, following on Bowskill's c(Torts at mediation, the Portuguese ollicials arrested a number of native Christians. The effect was electrical, war being renewed, San Salvador was burnt and the Portuguese driven within the fortress. The besieged are short of water, and the insurrectionists shoot everyone trying to reach water. The whole country is excited. Bowskill told Paulo, the Portuguese official in charge of the fortress, that his action had inflamed the country, whereupon Paulo detained Bowskill.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 211, 6 March 1914, Page 5
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118Portuguese Affairs Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 211, 6 March 1914, Page 5
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