PORTUGUESE PLOT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1051, 14 February 1911, Page 5

PORTUGUESE PLOT.

, AN OFFICER CASHIERED. . . Dy Tclecraph—Preis Association—Copyright Lisbon, February 12. Captain Fonseca, of the 10th Infantry, Rationed at Braganza, has been cashiered for plotting, against tho Government. ' Information reotfved in London from private sources confirms tho news received in Paris, (wrote,."The Times" at thp beginning of last, nionth) that the state of affairs in Lisbon is. extremely disquieting. - Tho. hopes aroused that tho proclamation of a Rejublio would, put an iminediato end to all abuses and all grievances has been disappointed, and thero has consequently, boon n reaction, especially . among; thp labouring classes, ■against tho new regime. And ,various measures taken, by the new Government,-' especially, perhaps, the authorisation of strikes,'tho banishment to Gon of the ; judges who recently acquitted Senhor' Franco and the law regulating tho, relations of landlord and tenant, have created- dissatisfaction among other elements' of -the population. It is onlj- fair, however, to note that a deputation of shopiktjsiitrM" tp ;tho Minister coucerned ex* prestea tHeir approval of tlio measure.' While the situation is disquieting and tho foreign colony ,in Lisbon is showing oonsiderablo anxiety as to':futuro developments, 'there is nothing to indicate that, a crisis has actually arisen. Neither the Foreign Office'nor the Portuguese' Legation ' has received ' any ne\vs of any disturbances. 1 i '' . ■ 1