Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-12-16 | Page 2 | Monarchists Hate Republic

MONARCHISTS HATE REPUBLIC: Madrid. Her 1$ Advices frnm i across the border describe incidents' showing how near ine surface lies ihe monarchist haired of the new republic hi the country districts of Portugal which do noi foci tho strong hand of tho eon?tab;:Iarv and uherc a large part of the inhabilnnts have remained loyal at heat I lo the deposed depos-ed King Manuel The monaichist cioriralf or Ihe district of Villa Flor revolted recently recent-ly seemingh through a kind of spoil-' tanoous indignation against tho gov-I eminent Some malcontents passius t 1 the local government house called ' out derisively 'llio townspeoplr gathered and presently a movement was made toward rhe eutrance of the building A moment lalei the crowd began lo sack tho place AH the archives were piled in tho street and burned. Messages wcro sent bv the Republican Republi-can agents to the provincial capital and two companies oT troops wore sent to restore the local government and arrest the disturbers. News of the approach of the troops reached Villa Flor and the church hells rang an ahrm. The countr people streamed toward the towp and the military were attached by more than a thousand peasants, others threw stones and closed with tho deploying de-ploying Infantry in hand to hand fighting. fight-ing. Tho troops fired repealed volleys, vol-leys, killing eleven and wounding thirty thir-ty persons The soldiers lost three killed and ten wounded. Thvo hundred hun-dred persons have been arrested. no