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Show It' ATTEMPT TO MAKE A ' REPUBLIC OF PORTUGAL Plan to Assassinate Premier Franco and Cause 8erlous Uprising Is Promptly Nipped In Bud. Lisbon. An abortlvo attempt to ovorthrow tho monarchy and proclaim pro-claim Portugal a republic has boon nipped In tho bud by tho prompt ac-tlon ac-tlon of tho government. Tho plot wns organized by a small group of advanced ad-vanced republicans. As near as can bo ascertained, tho plan was to as-isasBlnato as-isasBlnato Promlor Franco and then depend for success upon street rlB-Ings rlB-Ings supported by socrot republican and labor organizations armed with bombs and rovolvors. Tho conspirators intended to tnlo jndvantngo of various festivities to jcarry out tho coup d'etat Tho royal fnmlly was at Villa Vlcosa, cntortnln-ling cntortnln-ling tho Duko of Abruzzl. Most of (tho army and navy offlccrs who woro (In tho city woro attending n gala per-Iformanco per-Iformanco at tho theatre, whllo many of tho chief functionaries of Btatu , K wcro present at a magnificent ball at l' , ' ono of tho legations, f. i Tho pollco discovered what wns In tho wind early In tho evening of Jan-i Jan-i . luary 23rd, and surrounded a houso J1. J iwhero tho rlnglcndors In tho plot E j' wero conferring. Whon they broko In K,' J. . tho doors tho lights wero oxtln- $'' gulshed and In tho confusion that fol- Sowed most of tho conspirators man-Ki man-Ki ngod to muko thoir escape Sovcral $ ' s," of them wero captured, howovor, In- s K" eluding tho leader, Joao Chagas, a re- If publican Journalist, who wns promi- ft. . pent In tho republican rovolt of 1891; E IT; !Franka Dorgor, editor of tho Mundo.i Ik and a merchant named Orcndolla. A ca8 of rovolvors and bombs was 'H5f-' found In tho collar. f- ' M' From papors enptured It was ovi- ';' & dent that tho conspiracy wns badly t-' organized and premature. Tho leader f$ wtk;" has always been an .actlvo revolution- 0 R' 1st. After tho revolt in 1891 ho es- caped to Brazil, and subsequently, P K being pardoned by amnesty, returned t , Jf to Portugal. i, ,) p. As the details of tho plot aro in tho ' B hands of tho pollco, other arrests aro Kg cxpoctcd. |