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Show DISCOVERED Lisbon Alarmed Over Plan to Upset Government, Govern-ment, Troops Armed. Lisbon, Portugal. Dec IS. A plot to establish a military dictatorship In Portugal was discovered last night. Part of the army was supposed to bo implicated. The cabinet was In session ses-sion all night Troops were kept under arms and toJay warships in the harbor cleared for action. Rumors of an alarming nature spread all over the city and caused great anxiety. It was reported that a large number of conspirators had assembled in the Campo Granda park and were about to come into the city and seize the members of the cabinet. cabi-net. It was also asserted that they Intended In-tended to occupy the government buildings and declare a now government. govern-ment. Trooos Under Arms. The minister of war, acting under tho orders of the cabinet, kept certain cer-tain troops, whose loyalty was undoubted, un-doubted, under aruiB. He also called out the whole of the republican guards and the members of the republican secret se-cret society as the "carbanario?." who were all nrmed. The minister of marine ordered all the war vessels in the harbor to take up faorable positions and to prepare for eventualities Tho night passed howccr, without any outbreak - - - oo |