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Show NEW REPUBLIC NOT YET ONjlfiM BASIS Portugal Confronted With All ; Sorts of Troubles. May Sell urican Possessions. By international News 8ervl e. LISBON, -Tan. C7.--The ship of state of the Portuguese rrpiibli'- is drifting perilously near to the shoals of bank-; naptcy. threatening has the sitna-tion sitna-tion become that Portuca) has pat some Of her African colonial possrc'on up or sale and is trying to find a pur chaser, Preliminary negotiations have been entered int o wit', Qenngny for the sale of all the West African possessions I of PortUL'al. but the internal i.-nnl complication! com-plication! of vneh a tranaacMoa are o grent that fo far nothing definite has been (ione. However, a note has bee., plaeed in tho bands of the Hriih government by Dr. Solf, the new colonial tfScretS toi Germany, explairjing thai Qermgny isi not aDimate.l hv n desire of terrttOrial SggTfl '-'lizemeut. The Portuguese government needs money for a w:de variety of purposes, but chiefly to build op her array end Davy. There are continual desertion from tne northern bsgrnaki because the soldiers ?re not paid, and with the weakening weak-ening of the army fears are intensified intensi-fied .'bat the royalifs, the clericals and t.be mutineer! fom t br- Republican arhtv may combine in an uprising. The inlertor of Portugal i teething with unrest. In addition to the church and political trouble?, n wave of discon tent is sweeping industrial eeuters and the labor leaders are t hret'.'.enine- to call a national strike. Fighting is come; on continually. I'e.ieral patrolo clash almost drily with rovintj bands of rovalists on the Spanish Span-ish frontier, while followers of the clerical party have armed themselves and are making; attacks upon state proper: v, wherever the opportunity of- ; ters I It is estimated that the government needs $10,000,000 before it. will feel secure from the dangers that attend it from .ill these sources. |