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Show l l d Mob Makes Quick Work' Dispatching Portugal i President's Assassin, j iMADE SURE 0F AIM! i i Executive Shot Down at! Railway Station in . Lisbon. i -. -I'SBOnT' Sunday, Dec. 15. (Havas) The assassin of Dr. Sidino Paes, president of Portugal, made -sure of his' aim when he attacked the president presi-dent today. Dr. Paes was talking with a number of ministers at a railroad station here ihcn a young man approached ap-proached the group. I He succeeded in reaching the side I of Dr. Paes, and. drawing a pistol, fired point blank at the president. Dr. Paes never regained consciousness. The murderer was killed by the crowd and another man, suspected of complicity in the crime, was arrested. After the minister of tho interior had assumed the office of president, I Alfred Magalhies, minister of marine, was charged with the duty of heading the foreign office which portfolio was borne by Dr. Paes in conjunction with the presidency. The government as thus constituted will remain in office until action is taken by the chamber of deputies, which has ben called lo meet tomorrow. Police authorities suspect that the I crime was planned by the League of Republican Youths. There is an unanimous una-nimous protest against the crime on the part of the population. Union la-boi; la-boi; leaders have been placed under protection by the police. LISBON, Sunday, De:. 15 The body of Dr. Sidino Paes, president of Portugal, Por-tugal, who was assassinated Saturday by a man named Jeetne, was taken today to-day to the Belem palace to await the funeral ceremonies. Meanwhile the Portugese government is continuing in office under Oraes Castro, the minister min-ister of Justice, while both chambers of the parliament have been summoned summon-ed today to discuss the question of a successor to the presidency. The whole capital is in mourning with a deep under-current of excitement excite-ment among both military and civilians civil-ians who are organizing parades in which the marchers call for vengeance. The govornment has issued an appeal to all public officials asking them to preserve order. ! LONDON. Dec. 15. Dr. Sidonio Paes, president of Portugal, was shot and killed by an assassin shortly before be-fore midnight Saturday while lie was in a railway station at Lisbon, waitirg for a train to Oporto. Advices from Lisbon reporting the assassination .say that ho was struck by three bullet.":. President Paes died within ,i few minutes after ho was shot. The president's assailant, named Jeetne, was killed by the crowd. Dr. Sidonio Paes was formally pro-claimed pro-claimed president of Portugal on last June 9. He headed a revolt in Portugal in December, 1917, and was named president of the provisional government govern-ment on Decembor 9, a few days more than a year before he was assassinated. assassinat-ed. Dr. Paes was a profossor of mathematics mathe-matics in the University of Coinbra when h ontered the Portuguese, cabinet cabi-net in 1911 as minister of public works At tho outbreak of the Avar he was Portuguese minister to Germany and remn.ln;d in Berlin until the early rpnrl of 191G, when he returned to Lisbon. While provisional president, Dr. Paes declared that Portugal would con tinue in agreement with the allies against Germany, One of his first acts after being proclaimed president was to take active steps for greater participation partic-ipation in the war by Portugal. On December G, -while walking in the streets of Lisbon, Dr. Paes was fired at, but the shot went wild. The president's presi-dent's aggressor was arrested. Monarchist Plots. Portugal became a republic in 1910, about two years after the assasination in the streets of Lisbon of King Carlos and Crown Prince Luii. During these two years King Manuel, second son of Carols, ruled. When the king and crown prince were assassinated, Manuel Man-uel also was wounded. It was in October, 1910. that revolutionists revolu-tionists obtained the upper hand in Portugal and proclaimed a republic, with Theophile Braga as president. The once royal family escaped to GFi-braltar GFi-braltar from Lisbond. Later Manuel went lo England and since has resided there almost entirely Frequently thore has icn monarchist monarch-ist plots in Portugal with the object of overthrowing the republic, but all these have failed. Many persons among the monarchists and the republicans repub-licans have met death in street fighting fight-ing at various points, nnd numerous persouages have been arrested, sentenced sen-tenced to long terras of imprisonment or executed for fomenting the disorders. disor-ders. The throwing of bombs has occupied a prominent part in the disorders. Strikes of all kinds have been of frequent fre-quent occurrence, and plots to assassinate assas-sinate presidents and cabinet ministers have been unearthed. Mutiny several times has broken out in the navy, which twice bombardod Lisbon, killing many personB and canning great material ma-terial damasa. |