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Show MANUEL SPURNS HIS OLD THRONE Portugese Monarchists Told Efforts to Kill Repuhlic Are Not Favored L1SB.". ct. 10. Portuguese mon-archiata mon-archiata have been notified that the. former King Manuel of Portugal, w ho Is now in England ts opposed at j present to any steps toward restora-. tkoa f the monarch1' in this countrj Th is is made public inxa letter to thc "S'oung Conservative Monarchists Is-1 sued by Councillor Ayres B'Ornellae, who is official representative here df 'tin exiled king. The letter was written III a hospital where the royalist statesman states-man is rec-ov i'iing from an operation, unflei survelllahce until he can be re-; i rned to prison where he has been for nearfy 'wo years since the last) monarchist Uprising, i IKK I OK ORDER The councillor says that he believes formei Kin,' Manuel lizards ihe '.oii-omlc '.oii-omlc distress now prevalent in Port-1 Ugal "to forbid all genuine Portu ' guK?! from talsing part in 8X1 y kind of rev lutlohary movement The CQUn clllor advises the '.'oung Monarchists Instead to support i ; 1 1 order which I h' lays is now attached in so many I way. He adds we must maintain; our national integrity, afterward we will see to the political form of gov-1 ernment under which -it isvto live." in; the meantime he suggests that the monarchists take logql steps to organize organ-ize their foresee. This letter was evidently written In I answei to questions addressed to coun- i 1 1 1 or d'Ornellas as the royalist leadei In Portugal because a group of mon nrchists who have abandoned their al-leglance al-leglance to the former King Manuel ire undertaking to soled as pretender, 0 the throne a young dcipn of another) 1 iamb of IIih House of Braganza. this grOup SI nt a .delegation to Duke! Michel F'.raganza. head of the .ns- ii hi branch of the family, asking permission per-mission to Same his youngest son. Priori, iiiiii I 1 1 1 : i r t ' Qfl hoHr In ITlA jthroin- of Portugual if a monarchy l should be restored. n I w !io l T PARTI Prince N'uno Duarte is only is years lOld. ih" choice feltyuppn him because Prince Migm 1. th eldest son of the i Duke Michel is held to be debarred I from i ov al rights because he married I Anita Stewart, an American woman, : and because tin- DuHes second son Was P.raganza Pourbon. Countess del Bai II, widow of Prince Henry b' Bourbon de Parma, as regent until he shall become of age. j The group of monarchists under- jt;ajng these steps call themselves the Ir'tegralista party. The newspaper iSeculo says in un interview with ft! J member of that party that it is probable prob-able the bid royalist party railed the MigueJislas will Join forces with this new party against the followers of the former King Manuel. |