ROYALISTS ATTACKED.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1451, 28 May 1912, Page 5

ROYALISTS ATTACKED.

DISORDER IN PORTUGAL. Dy Telegragh-Press Association—Coorrleht Lisbon, May 20. Many political pri.-oners have been tried at Oporto during tho Inst two months, but all were acquitted. The trial of the last batch is proceedtSejuidiiilous scenes luivo occurred inside and outside llib Court. A Republican mob threatened counsel, jurymen, and witnesses. PUtols were produced on both sides. During tho trial of Royalists at Lisbon a mob attacked and overturned a prison van, and wounded several prisoners. Tho military with drawn swords effected a rescue. PORTUGAL'S FATE. "The prospects are not very bright for the Republic," writes Mr. A.'E. G. Bel!, of Portugal, isi the "Contemporary Review." "It has taken for its motto, Order and Work, but its history has hitherto been one of strikes and disorders, so that a Republican journal, '0 Intransigonte,' could say in December, 1911, that the Republic in fourteen months had done more harm than fourteen years of monarchical politics. The i Republic is in as great a clanger from its friends as from its enemies. It has to fear the discontent of the devout inhabitants of the North, of the underpaid workmen throughout the country districts, of the workmen of advanced doctrines in the towjis! it has to fear a military promiueiamiefifo in Portugal, an attack of Royalists along the frontiers of Minjo and Traz-os-Montes. But above all it has much lo fear from those hysterically ardent Republicans to whom tho Republic has brought tho consciousness of possessing secret power, and whs pursue with personal rancor those who are inclined to moderate courses. It would have been well for the Republic could the secret society of the Carbonados have been disbanded in October, 1910; but they have, on the contrary, increased and multiplied; they have been allowed to' make arrests freely, ami seem upon several occasions to have terrorised the Government into employing; quite disproportionate methods to insure order, or, perhaps, to prolong disorder and an abnormal' situation in which the Carbonarioa might display their readiness to sacrifice themselves for tho Hepublic and find, if not any material ad. vantage, at. least tho pirasant sense »V their own importance. They have overrun the country, spying, accusing, arresting." This writer adds that the banishment of independent Judges to Goa, the outcry in the Radical press when a rioyalI ist prisoner is acquitted, the punishment iof thirty parish priests of Lisbon for Figning an address of sympathy with their banished Patriarch, are "a fnv signs out of many of a narrow inquisitorial spirit from which it is idle lo expect any greatness or prosperity to come."