At the trial of the cruiser Barracouta the boiler exploded, and ten of the crew were injured, two of them fatally.
[The Baracouta is a new Srd-class, twin screw, protected cruiser of 1,580 tons and 3,000 horse-power. She was built at the Sheerness Dockyard, engined by Palmer's, and launched last year. She is a 164-knot ship.-—Ep.]
PORTUGAL DISSATISFIED, London, 11th February.
The windows of the Oporto Club have been smashed because the English were not expelled, and the British Consul has been challenged to a duel.
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