Show fear of plunging portugal into the horrors of a rebellion forced the premier to resign king manuel with voice trembling appeals to the new cabinet for guidance lisbon feb 3 today saw the establishment of a regime pre paler franco has resigned office and within forty eight hours of the assassination si of king carlos his dictatorship is at an end at least for the present franco resigned for fear that his continuance in office would plunge the country in rebellion tho premier has been considered directly responsible for tho political turmoil I 1 which resulted in the assassination of i the king and his withdrawal from poyer isi regarded as holding a promise of political tranquility A new cabinet hag absen formed under the presidency of do amaral a member of the progressive dissident party some of the new ministers have notably bean opposed to the rule on franco but on the whole the present cabinet is liberal with monarchial tendencies I 1 ahe opening session of the new council was held today and the young monarch king manuel II 11 placed himself ini the hands of his ministers he appeared before them and in a voice shaking 1 with emotion said I am yet without experience either in science or politics I 1 place myself entirely in your hands needing and believing in your patriotism and wisdom arrests are being made by the wholesale in lisbon and all suspicious persons still at liberty are under police surveillance up to half past four this afternoon there has been no recurrence of disorders in liston list on the portuguese frontier is being closely guarded to prevent the escape of suspects the authorities are maintaining a strict censorship on all outgoing telegraphic messages y r f athe spanish government has ordered a cruiser to come to Lisbon and it was learned ere today that two british warships are on their way to the tagus the general opinion here is that there will be a modification in the ministerial program after the funerals of the lute king and the crown prince these probably will take place february i |