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Show BRAZIL'S BIRTHDAY; NOT THE JOYOUS OCCASION THE! WORLD HAO A RIGHT TO EXPECT, j All Newt from There Still of the Most Con-aiding Con-aiding Character The Australian War , Scare Portuguese Republicans Defeated De-feated Other Foreign News. F.io Janeiro, Nov. 17. The second anni-versr anni-versr ry of the proclamation of the republic of Brazil was observed yesterday. A military mili-tary review and fetes were held in honor of the occasion. The day passed quietly, the public taking but little interest In the celebration. cele-bration. The situation in San Paulo is dily becoming more grave. Washington, Nov. 17. Senor Mendonca, the Brazilian minister here, has received the following by cablegram from the Brazilian minister of foreign relations, dated November Novem-ber 14th: "Affirm that complete tranquility reigns in all states except Rio Grande, where contlicts, provoked by questions pertaining to local politics, have occurred, with which in virtue of the constitution the federa. ,ov- ernment could not interfere. "Deny the rumors of se cession. The idea is condemnen by all Brazilians. Affirm that no state thinks of seceding. Deny that, members of the dissolved congress are in the foreign legations as refugees.- Nearly all the members of congress have returned to their states. Those who remain here go about th city at liberty. Thus far the government gov-ernment has taken no violent measure. A day will be tt for the next election, and congress is convoked to meet immediately after." The Brazil minister has also received private pri-vate information to the effect that the length to which the reported revolutionary movement move-ment in the state of Para had gone was the adoption by the state assembly of a set of resolutions condemning the action of the president and approving the course pursued by congress. London, Nov. 17. News from Brazil continues con-tinues of the most conflicting character, official offi-cial dispatches from Rio de Janeiro asserting with unequivocal positiveness that tbe couu-try couu-try is absolutely tranquil, while telegrams from Buenos Ayres and Santiago report Brazil Bra-zil torn with dissension and secession. The actual facts will probably not be known un- til mail advices are received. An official censorship prevents dispatches not approved by the government from reaching Europe direct. It is not known how such dispatches reach Buenos Ayres and Chile. The latest official advice from Brazil states that the trouble in Rio Grande do Sul is purely loeaL, and that the government of that state is now in the hands of a provisional junta. It is inferred from this that the authorities at Rio regard the junta in. sympathy with the central government, but this theory is contradicted con-tradicted by dispatches from Santiago to the Times. These declare that the provisional junta has taken absolute control, and asserts that it has an army of 30,000 men armed with rifles. It is short of artillery, ami has but one war vessel, a . river, nionitori lightly armed. |