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Show Powers Ask Spain to Quit Aiding- Portuguese Portu-guese Rebels. Lisbon, Portugal, July 13. According Accord-ing tb the Portuguese newspapers, Palz, Spain, has received a collective note from England and France, pointing point-ing out the principle of international law which obliges Spain to respect the republic of Portuguese and to enforce en-force neutrality on the frontier. Senor Augusto Vasconcellos, the Portuguese premier, had an Interview today with Sir Arthur Hardinge, British Brit-ish minister to Portugal, in the course of which he protested against Spain permitting armed Portuguese royalists royal-ists to encamp on Spanish territory. Wholesale arrests of royalist conspirators con-spirators have been effected at Bellas, Bel-las, In the province of Estremadura, about 11 miles to tho northwest of Lisbon, where the rebels had cut the telegraph wires and had planned to seize the batteries of the fortress of Quch'z The plot failed, owing to tho republican troops having discovered a store of guns andt dynamite and a number of women's' divided skirts with which the conspirators had intended in-tended to disguise themselves. Further disorders are reported from the town of Caslmbra, about 18 miles sou Mi of Lisbon ,on the Atlantic coast, v. here royalist sympathizers attacked the Democratic club. Royalist bands also are reported to be fchowing activity at various points along the frontier. In one encounter six royalists were killed by the re-puolican re-puolican troops. |