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Show PORTUGAL IN REVOLUTION, KING MANUEL A PRISONER oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo o o LONDON', O. t. 4. According to the Daily Mail, a rcvoln- O tion broke out in Lisbon today. The dispatch adds that King O Manuel i a prisoner; that street lighting has occurred; that O Hie warships are bombarding the palace, and that all com- O inunication with the cupital is cut off. O O SANTANDKR, Spain, Oct. 4. A fJcrninn steamer here O O has received a wireless from the steamer Cape Blanco of the O same line, lying off Lisbonthat warships began bombard- ing the palace just as soon as the uprising in the city began. O O Shortly the revolutionists hauled down the royal standard O O over the palace and replaced it with the Republican green O I O and blue flat'. f O O I oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo the Liberals, the monarchists and the RepiiMicans A new cabinet wai formed on Jane 20 with Antonio I.r-1-zeila do Sousa as premier. In ad dltion to Beriona dlstsessions over political pol-itical mntters PoituRal has been on the verge of a rupture with the Vatican, Vati-can, a fact that has led to serious conflicts between the clericals and the antl-clericals. The Vatican has taken occasion to deny the seriousness of the trouble between It and the Portuguese Portu-guese government and also asserted that no clerical plot existed for the overthrow of the monarchy. It was added by a Vatican oflical that the presence In Portugal of Alejandro Lerroux chief of the republicans in Spy in had led the Vatican authorities to believe that reports of such a plot were instigated by Lerroux In order to give their enemies a pretext for an attack on catholics. LONDON, Oct. 4. The Standard's correspondent of the Reuter Telegram company confirms the report of a revolution In Portugal and adds that the rebels have captured the palace. The Eastern Telegraph company announced an-nounced thie afternoon the receipt from its station at Carvellos, 11 miles from Lisbon, of a message that all communication with the capital was interrupted. The Daily Mail also prints its report re-port of the revolution without a date i ine and it may be based upon a wire-I wire-I less dispatch said to have been re-' re-' ceived by the Paris Matin, reading: "A revolution has broken out in Lisbon and warships are now bombarding bom-barding the capital. The army and navy are supporting the revolutionists." revolution-ists." A Portuguese merchant in London j says he received news of a plot in I Lisbon on Monday. The price of Por-' Por-' tuguese bonds dropped heavily on the stock exchange here yesterday. The Times this morning prints no I dispatches from Its Llshon rorrespon-i rorrespon-i deut, but It prints the Matin's wlre-' wlre-' lrss dispatch and sayh it has reason 1 t believe that the news of the revolution revo-lution Is true, although the rumors that the king is a prisoner are not i supported. Suspicious of Manuel's Private Life. Private advices received from Portugal Por-tugal recently had reference to the tlauger threatening the monarchy. A letter from a well Informed correspondent corres-pondent at Lisbon received here only last nlht criticises the king as given almost as little to the monarchist i cause as to the progressives, and de- dares that his lack of force In polit- J ! ual affair has been accentuated by i ! public suspicion o( his private life. King Manuel, says tbe correspon-' correspon-' dent, for these reasons has been rap-, rap-, ld!y losing the good es-teetn of those : whose honest attachment to the Ro-! Ro-! inn n chunh has hitherto held ihem ' loj-a to the monarchy In his per-i per-i fon, I Many Indications of Trouble. The Times further points out that there have been many recent Indies-i Indies-i linns of approaching trouble, the pei-! pei-! mention ct military und naval affairs v Ith reinbll anlsm, rumors that con-! con-! servatlve statesmen were entering Into In-to relations with the Republican lead- ers and similar signs that can have only one meaning, while the court party par-ty displayed timidity, thu prompt lug i Hie belief that they would offer no I serious resistance to a revolution that ! mlcbt therefore be effected quietly and possibly by parliamentary luelh- I Rumors of the ovci throw or the 1 monarch v In Portugal have been cui-I cui-I rent nearlv ever since Manuel a-' a-' cended the throne after the assassination assassina-tion of King Carlos and the crown ' prince on February 1. l'. The Lls-bon Lls-bon newspaper recently have printed : alarming ieports of an alleged ploi or tho clerical party f-r the overthrow ' of the Portuguese government and the e-tablUhmcut of an.tlilury .Hstator-' .Hstator-' shir. The Seculou declared that the ' clerical party's strong dissatisfaction 1 with the policv f the government had 'culminated In Ihe organisation of a 1 rebellion t... overthrow the govern-. govern-. , mer.t. selr.o'lts members and set up , i a dictatorship the first abject for i which would be to stamp out the rt- publican political party. ' Since Manuel becime sovereign hair a dozen cablneu have been formed and have resigned. The n.lnlury un- '. der the pn sldency ot Francisco IKi I Velga Pcrac reslcned ou June 1.. ar-ter ar-ter having recommended the dlssolu-r dlssolu-r Hon of the chamber of deputies which was opposed by tuc kiuz as well as j |
