PORTUGUESE POLICY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 948, 15 October 1910, Page 5

PORTUGUESE POLICY.

♦ ■■■ NO CESSION OF COLONIES. KING MANUEL GETS NO PENSION. By-Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. Lisbon, October 13. ■ President Braga states that no Republican Ministry will consent to paTt with an inch, of Portuguese territory, or lcaso it to a foreign Power.; Local autonomy will be 'established in the colonies..: , No pension allowances will be granted to King Manuel. His personal property, will bo respected, but the royal debt of . £700,000 sterling will be deducted from its value. It will take five months to prepare for the convoking of an Assembly. PRIESTS AND THE STATE. Lisbon, October 13. Senor Relvas, Minister of Finance in the new Portuguese Government, states that he does ■ not desiro to destroy, religious sentiment, but. only to compel the priests to confine themselves, to, spiritual matters. ; Independent. schools . would I bo permitted if the teachers were ap-1 proved by the State. , RECOGNITION FROM SWITZER- : 1 LAND. ■■■■■■■■'■ Lisbon, October 13. Switzerland has recognised the Porr tuguese Republic! -' : .. f SAN THOME LABOUR QUESTION, i 1 Lisbon, October 13. The Republican Government'promises to settle the ■ forced labour question- in the San Thome cocoa plantations- with absolute justice and- freedom to the natives.;' ",-V:'-y...';' . The Government has orderod the enforcement of the ; laws relating to free recruitment and repatriation of natives on the mainland.. ' .. ■ Cocoa is crown by slave labour on the islands of Principe and San Thome (belonging to Portugal), located off j' the; coast of tropical West Africa,' and' re : cehtly:: the • prqduot ■: lost ■ its.. market\ in' Great: Britain owing to tho refusal of the - large •' British: firms'.to'-:'Bujr. it,:'. Tlieir' action was duo to an . agitation; against slave-grown cocoa. • . •. .y\ :J~