The Archive · 1912

Royalist Outbreak in Portugal

FIGHTING IN VALENCE

Madrid, July 7.

The Portuguese Royalists have attacked Valenca, captured the the railway station and cut the railway and telegraph lines. Fighting in the town continues.

Some 200 armed men in uniform, under Portuguese officers, were seen on the frontier near Tuy about to enter Portugal. The Spanish authorities were unable to prevent them from carrying out their object.

Despatches from Lisbon and Oporto describe the rioting at var-ione points in Northern Portugal, which has been promptly suppress The Spanish authorities yesterday arrested a motor car loaded with rifles and ammunition, while it wae attempting to cross the Portuguese frontier.

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