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Show Outbreaks in Several Brazilian Brazili-an States Force Authorities Authori-ties to Take Drastic Measures. DIFFERENCES ARE SAID TO BE RACIAL Editors of Three of Principal Newspapers of Rio and Several Army Officers Are Arrested. mo DE JANE I HO, Brazil, March 5. Tho Brazilian government authorities today proclaimed a state of siogo in the cities of Rio de .Janeiro, Nictheroy and Pctropolis. This is to remain in force until March 31. The government's action ac-tion is taken as a preventive measure against any possible troubles. Disturbances wero feared from certain cer-tain parts of tho population as a result re-sult of tho recent insurrection in tho province of Ccara, where the situation is reported worst. Managing editors of throe of tho principal newspapers, A Epoca, Correio da iSToito and O Imparcial, were placed under arrest today, while General Thaumaturgo, Azevedo and Feliciano Mondes do Moraes, two colonels and somo other officers of the army were also made prisoners. A strict censorship was immediately established by the government on telegraphic tel-egraphic communications and all the troops wero confined to barracks, in readiness for any eventualities. There wero no disorders in tho fcdoral district. dis-trict. Racial Differences. BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, March 5. A state of siege was proclaimed in llio do Janeiro, Brazil, today, according accord-ing to dispatches reaching hero from that city. It is understood hero that a strict censorship has been imposed on dispatches dis-patches from Brazil. Roports have been curront for some timo that a revolutionary movement was in existeuco in the Brazilian states of Pernambuco, Ccara aud Para, and that fighting was in progress between tho local forces and tho government authorities. The causes of the disaffection wore said to havo been racial differences. In the last weok of February a hnrlv of fanatics was reportod to be marching march-ing on Rio de Janeiro. The situation in the various states was reported as becoming worse, especially espe-cially in Ceara. Business was Baid to bo virtually suspended in soveral states, chiefly thoso where tho negro population is very numerous. The state of Ceara at tho last census had a population of about S50.000, Para 4o0,000 and Pernambuco 1,200,000. Advices Are Meager. WASHINGTON, March 5. Seuor de brania, thu ombassador from Brazil, received re-ceived a brief dispatch from his government gov-ernment today directing him to assure legations and consular officers in this country "not to feel any uneasinosa because of minors." There wero no advices ad-vices to supplement it, the embassador said, and his only information of what tho dispatch Telated to was contained in tho news dispatches telling of a state of siege at Rio and revolutionary troubles trou-bles in somo of the Brazilian states. News that Rio was undor siego and reports of an uprising in tho northern statos of Para, Pernambuco and Ceara perplexed state department officials, as tho interests of the northern provinces and tho southern districts, including Rio, are quite distinct. Tho southoni provinces aro considerod the more progressive, pro-gressive, contain most of the railroads and aro tho center of very extensive coffee interests. l.n the provinces of thu north, such as those Irom which the latest outbreak is reported, the negro population predominates. pre-dominates. Nothing has bcon rccoived recently at the state department concerning con-cerning racial clashes in any of those provinces, and it was said that nothing noth-ing lias been heard of any disturbances in Brazil for several wueks. Early in the present year meagor reports re-ports reached tho department of hostilities, hostili-ties, then said to bo confined to Pernambuco Per-nambuco and tho neighboring states of Ceara, but tho cause of the uprising was not. staled. News Confirmed. LONDON, Murcli o. Confirmation of tho report that a state of siege had been proclaimed in Rio de Janeiro was rcpoivcd horo from that city today. Martial law has been proclaimed in Nictheroy, flvo miles west of tho capital, capi-tal, and in Petropolis, capital of the stato of Rio do Janeiro. Tourists in Danger. .OHICAGO, March 5. Fear f'or tho safety of fifty members of the Illinois Manufacturers' association touring South America, who are near Rio do Janeiro, was expressed hero today, John (Continued on Pago Three.) A STATE OF SIEGE EXISTS li BBflZjL (Continued from Page Ono.) M. Glenn, secretary of the association said that tho partv was at Sao Paulo or Santos today. These cities aro not fnr from the Brazilian capital. State's Rights Dispute. WASHINGTON. March ."..News of the situation in Bra.ll created much discussion dis-cussion In official elrcI'jK hero. Uon-orally. Uon-orally. however, the opinion was expressed ex-pressed that the trouble would be short- : lived. I Attention was called particularly to dis- content in the nurth of the republic and to tho fact that Purnanibuoo had been upset about a year ago when ccrlain acts of the federal government were resented by the state as an ussumptlon by the federal power of unconstitutional authority. au-thority. It was wild, too, that considerable consid-erable feeling exists also In other states over the states rights question. Discontent Discon-tent growing out of transition In financial finan-cial affairs, due to depreciation in t lie rubber market and to the breaking up by the (Tailed Slates of the coffee valorization valor-ization system, was pointed to by sonic as possible reason for much of the exist ex-ist lug unrest. Quotations as Usual. NEW OltLEANS, La., March. 5 Coffee market quotations were received at the Now Orleans board of trade from Brazil as usual today, but no mention was made . of a-thing out of the ordinary at Rio de Janeiro, Coffee merchants mer-chants hero who have extensive interests inter-ests in Brazil also were without information infor-mation of any trouble. |
