Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-11-28 | Page 3 | Coincidences in Brazil's 'Nightmare'

COINCIDENCES IN BRAZIL'S IGMIE' Xeivsnaper Kinds Strange Chronological Comparisons in Recent Mutiny. IiIO .IANF.1KO. Brazil. Nov. 27. The city awoke this morning with a feeling of inexpressible 'relief. Tin- warshlpn of the licet were again in I ho hands of the government', which last, evening scut officers of-ficers to lukc command. Trains from the interior brought back families thai had lied In fear of tho bombardment bom-bardment by the mutineers, and the newspapers rejoice that the people had been delivered from what they termed a nightmare. ' Thb mutineers did not lack for some kinds of supplies, .but had difficulty in nueurlng water and coal. The principal grievances.' adjustment of which the men demanded, was the employment by the officers of a leather whip called "chi-bata" "chi-bata" and tho storloa of the punishment inflicted upon tho men as told In the newspapers show tills lo have been veritable veri-table torture. A series of curious coincidences in connection con-nection with the mutiny Is sot forth In one of the local papers. In 1711 the French ship Duguay Trunin bombarded the city prior to its capture by tho French. In 1010, the French training ship Duguav Trouin was in tlio harbor when the mutineers threw shells into tlio On November 28. 1801. Marochal Dco-doro Dco-doro Oa Konticcn., then president of. the republic, was deposed hv the natives. On November 2:t. the prescn; .cvoll took practical lorm, a day propl i- Je for tho present President ITorine.s Fonesca. The namos of the three ships on which Ihc mutlnv started, the Sao Paulo, the Mlnas Gerties and the Uahla arc t he same as the three stales which opposed the candidacy of Hermes Da Fpnsecn for tlio presldencv and finally -when the Portuguese Portu-guese cruiser Adamnstor bombarded tho roval pnl.u-e al Lisbon, the Brazilian battleship bat-tleship Sao Paulo was present, and when, the Sao Paulo bombarded Ulo Janeiro the Adamnstor was present.