Show AS PRESIDENT BY PORTUGUESE t r Democrats in Northern p n Republic Name ame amer f r Him Leader Antonio L LOON LONDON OON March Marci arch 6 Gen Orrel B Barreto has hM be been cn n pro pro- cl lm president of the tho republic of ot Northern Portugal by a congress congre of I Democrat who have ave been In session eIon at nt a received re- re Lame o to a dispatch LamegO Fabra News Newa today by the from Madrid This news newa reache Agency Madrid b by vy way o of or Badajoz of or Portugal Por For republic of tho The course since it It five years aA o following the assassination of ot aFo King Carlos CrloS has b been on marked by political po po- po- po and ami strife dl of or royalist agitation from Lisbon have or lesu lesa frequent and these theM been more b In Indications Ini In- In latterly latterly- have b been n superseded by the movement of ot another i jor radical which In the h Lust t few months montha has shown tt Itself elt strongly opposed ed to the existing republican gov gov- Treaty I Portugal by treaty trent obligations with Great Gret Britain was WIlS' bound to send men Then to ff fight ht with toe troops of Kins lIt So far aa M isI Is George e upon request 2 I Creat has made no such I demand on Portugal and ne there are no Portuguese troops fl fighting In Europe Little has been published conc concerning Portugal's attitude In the present war due largely to the censorship It Is IsA Isa Isa a fact bo eTer that Portuguese troops have ban been fighting German soldiers InI In Portuguese West Africa otherwise cnown u Angola Tho The German troops I in Question came caje Into the Portuguese colony from German Southwest lIt Af- Af rt l' l lI I Ih was wap an th an uprising In LIbon Lisbon on onI I January 15 of the p people Ople against the military ThIe wa Wab ment ras described I as a protest the policy of the government EO a ali 1 exemplified In the cU tto t-of t of th th Jr of the anvy arny nd navy It apparently came cameto to ai an I end when certain Portuguese of officers officers officers of- of surrendered their arms Attempt at An attempt wag wu u made the latter la part of or February o to assassinate Alf m Co Cos Co's Costa ta tn tv a former premier and ono one of or the tto leaders of oC the Democratic part party A fourteen fourteen- old fourteen old car boy bo- named d. d tried to shoot Senor Cb Costa t a as h ho he was boardIng board board- Ing a train Among other political disturbances ortho of or- tho the last hUlt thirty days dL'S Portugal has hAa been confronted with the th formation ion of a 0 ne new cabi cabinet n et Dispatches from Lisbon on February 24 saId Baht the thc government had decided to postpone the general ele elections Indefinitely and to order oder iv 1 revision of the census This was was' characterized as a ahart ahard hart hard blow for the theD D Democratic party for cor voting voting- under the present nt census Cell It undoubtedly un would have hn obtained a n ma ml At this time newspapers nI of ot Lisbon declared d' d the the republic was facing n n. great crisis Feeling Disturbs Disturb Army During tho the last week In February the Democratic propaganda wax was advanced In Portugal with energy Party feelIngs feelings feel feel- ings Invaded tho the army posters Oaters and manifestoes t against the I government and Premier Castro made their appearance In Lisbon and a number of political ar arrests arrests ar- ar rests were vero made A dispatch rec received fv d from Lisbon by byway wn Wa way of Paris Parie yesterday described a meeting of oC representatives es of the Democratic Democratic Dem Dern- party In a a. suburb of Lisbon In Inthe Inthe inthe the course of oC which the delegates present present pres pres- ent adopted a motion characterizing the president of the republic and tho the government government government gov gov- gov- gov as outlaws Only about half naif of this dispatch as 8 filed tiled In Lisbon came came through the romain remainder ler evidently e was stopped by the censor General Barreto nerved a aa minister o of war In the tho cabinet torm formed d b by the provisional pro pro- r visional l I government of oC Portugal during the first year r of or the existence of or the republic 1 |