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Show REPORTS OF CRITICAL I CONDITION IN PORTUGAL PARIS, Nov. 24. Reports representing that Portugal Is on tho eve of a revolution revo-lution are received here with caution, ns dispatches coming directly from that country have been censored nnd those indirectly across tho frontier nro held I more or less under suspicion. Both the ' reports of the banishment of the crown prince and the mutiny of tho ileet arc denied at the embassy here; nevertheless, neverthe-less, tlic making of arrests, the suspension suspen-sion of a newspaper and otlier repressive measures which have been talcon by wliat. Premier Franco terms an administrative dictatorship, soom conclusive that matters mat-ters in Portugal have entered upon a critical phase. This condition undoubtedly has heon precipitated by the Interview with King Carlos, which was published last week. In which he announced his absoluto fulth In Premier Franco and his intention to allow the premier to choose the time for the holding of the election of tho cortes. Tho parliamentary opposition which has boen stirring up tho country for months past, expected by a gigantic demonstration demonstra-tion planned for January 2 next, to forco the king to dismiss Premier Franco, but ills majesty's bold Indorsement of the dictatorship removes this hope abruptly, consolidating the entire opposition in the direction of republicanism. |