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Show DRIVING MONKS FROM PQRTUGJSL Priests and Manv Prominent Ecclesiasts Arc Being Sent Beyond the Borders. NEW REGIME WILL NOT TOLERATE CHURCH RULE City of Lisbon Again Outwardly Peaceful After Successful Uprising. LISBON". Oct. n. Tho expulsion of the monks from Portugal has begun. No time will .bo lost in driving them across (ho frontier. Several hundred nuns have been assembled and will bo deported out of the country. Cardinal Neto, ex-patriarch ex-patriarch of Lisbon, tho bishop of Boja and other prominent ecclesiastics have. already been expelled. Tho authorities utter n warning against tho exaggerated reports constantly con-stantly finding currency among the excited ex-cited populace. Tho affair at Quclhas monastery was not only serious, but the interior of the church was wrecked and desecrated and tho organ dcslroj'cd in the mad soarch by soldiers and civilians who invaded the building in search for underground passages by which they imagined priests and municipal guards orroueously suspected sus-pected of hiding there, mudo their escape. No secret passages wore discovered, dis-covered, but tho searchers toro down walls and benches aud oven tho altar iu their vain endeavor. New Regime. Standing. ISach day apparently adds lo tho stability sta-bility of the republic. Tho members of the new admiuistratiou assert that adherence to tho new principles has boon given by many outlying towns and districts. Oponly there arc no royalist troops to oppose tho forces of the republicans and Lisbon aftor two days ol! bloodshed and a further brief period of disorder is guict aud peaceful as it was weeks bo-toro bo-toro tho uprising. Tho provisional Minister of Justice Alfonso Costa, in an interview todaj', said: "Tho solution of tho problem of tho congregations is not difficult. Tho gov-ornmcnt gov-ornmcnt only needs to provent a continuance contin-uance of religious settlements, all of which arc illegal. Tho dissolution Trill occur without trouble and the confiscation confisca-tion of property will follow iu duo course." Last evening there was great cxclto-mont cxclto-mont in various parts of the city. Cavalry Cav-alry patrolled tho streets umf from time, to time rifle shots were heard, it was impossible, to ascertain from what direction the shots camo. Sailors guarding guard-ing tho Merccs chapel entered that cdi-lice cdi-lice but found nothing. Lt is believed however that underground passages connect con-nect tho convents and that those who wcro responsible for the bhooting mado their cscapo through these. King Called Coward. Public curiosity about, the flight oT King Manuel and thu other members of tho royal family has boon awakened by a violent; attack on .Manuel's Courago, contained in an article appearing in the newspaper Odi, tho organ of Dr. JI)so l)e Alpeim. chief of tho progressive dif fidents. The recital of tho king's experiences ex-periences represent Manuel as cringing in fear, stretched shuddering ou a divan, while exploding shells shrieked about the pi'lucu; then, deathly pale, tottering about the room, wondering whether the fate, of tho father would bo visited upon tho son. New details of tho king's flight, gleaned from attendants, show that whoa -Manuel arrived at Mafra he entered en-tered a bedroom, paying, "Lot us sleep. ! Continued on Tago Two. DRIVING MONKS FROM PORTUGAL Continued from Page Ono. Our patron saint, the Immaculate "Virgin "Vir-gin Mary, will watch over us.' Ruier Lacked Money. Tho morning, however, brought a blight to his hopes, and the departure for Eriecira was hurriedlv decided upon. As the king was without baggage and had but little monov, the attendants bought breakfast and tobacco at a near-py near-py shop. A weeping woman placed a box of handkerchiefs in the trunk of the queen mother. When they reached Ericeira, Amelie, prostrated bv tho events and overcome by the indift'erenco of the people, exclaimed passionately: ".How horrible! 1 never thought that tho Portuguese people would treat mo thus." The aged Maria Pia, who stumbled across tho beach on the arm of a lady n waiting, was in a state of collapse. When the fishing boat pulled away to join tho yacht, Queen Amelie fell unconscious un-conscious in the stern. It is estimated that between 5000 and 6000 monks and nuns will be expelled. Senhor Barreto. the now minister of war, states that the killed and wounded wound-ed in the revolution number under 300. |