REBELS AT WORK.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1736, 29 April 1913, Page 7

REBELS AT WORK.

$ — STIRRING TIMES IN LISBON. OVER 200 ARRESTS. B1 Telegraph—Press Asiiociation-Oopyright (Rec. April 28, 10.55 p.m.) Lisbon, April 28. The Portuguese Government, learning of disturbances which were projected by the Monarchists, Extremo Republicans, and Syndicalists, ordered precautions to be-taken. - A . hundred demonstrators, including many ' soldiers describing themselves as Radical Republicans, : tried ineffectually to persuade the engineers to leave the barracks. ;'l'he demonstrators ■ then- proceeded to the Radical Republican Federation headquarters, and received leather bags containing bombs. Tho police and the Republican Guards then dispersed the mob, and effected numerous/arrests.They seized the Federation officers, a quantity of. arms, and also badges intended for the rebels. About-one hundred and seventy-live prisoners were captured, including u , dozen military anil nuval officers, and a hundred soldiers. - Four dynamite bombs -were found in the infantry barracks. . A majority of thoso arrested are members of the Federation, including the retired General Guedes, its president. Two bombs were exploded in a suburb of Alcantara. The . troops'have been confined to the s barracks. . v , Tlie, carbonari are keeping watch over them. ' , A.cruiser will convey those under arrest to the colonieß, where they will be \ried. ■ ■ BOMB EXPLOSIONS. ' ; Lisbon, April 27. Two bombs exploded in the streets. • Thirty-six Extreme Republicans and Syndicalists, who took part in demonstrations,"were arrostcd and sent aboard a rar.shjp. . , CENTURY-OLI) FRIENDS. ——* ——- ; ' IN DISAGREEMENT. OVER THE PANAMA CANAL. Br Telesranh-Press Aisoclation-CoDjrieht Washington, April 27. Speakers at the International Law Society maintained that tho United States ought ,to agree to arbitration regarding the Panama Canal. ■ •Mr. Hannis Taylor urged that the cen.tu'rykild. friendship between Great Britain and the United States hinged on tho outcome of the question. He hoped the . United States would agree to a-diplo-matic settlement. ; ■

PANAMA CANAL TOLLS. ■ Early in April a report emanated from Lwulon to the effect that a favourable settlement of the Panama Canal tolls question had been arrived at, but it was understood that President Woodrow Wilson, was anxious to shelve the' question until'the tariff issue was settled. , The present Anglo-American Arbitration Treaty expires in June next. ■ ' Under the Claytonrßulwer Treaty the United ! Stat<wAahdi®ifg!and had equal rights jn the matter of the construction of any canaKao.'oss the Isthmus of Panama. That treaty was superseded by the HayFauncefote Treaty, by tho terms of which Great Britain gave up heir building rights, receiving in .return a definite reassurance of equal rights with the United States in the: use of any Panama Canal which mij/ht. be constructed. , ■ _ The treaty defines those equal rights'as follows, •

i • The canal shall bo free and .open to 1 the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations on'terms of entire equality, so that there shall be no discrim- .> i nation against. any such nation. Not only so. but when that treaty was before the Senate, that body definitely re-: jected an, amendment' proposed in favour of discrimination. Senator Bard pro- / , That .the United States reserves the a'ight in iho regulation and management of tho'canal to discriminate in ' respect of the charges of traffic on vessels, of its own citizens engaged in the \ coastwise trade. ' ' . That amendment was rejected by the Senato by 43 votes to 27. Then came the Panama Canal Act, which received President Taffs approval in August last. It contained, whem passed by the a . provision identical in Surport to the amendment of Senator nrd, a provision that— No tolls shall be levied on vessels engaged in the coastwise trade ,of the 'United States. ■'..'■ The attitude taken up by the British Government was' that "all nations": includes the United Stateq, that the exemption from j tolls of American coastwise ships violates thi Hay-Pauncefote Treaty; that British vessels are entitled to equality of .treatment with, those of 'the United ■'States;'that "unless all vessels using the canal pay tolls there will be no method of-fixing "just and equitable rates" as provided for ;in the treaty, and that exemption of one . class of American ships will throw on foreign vossels a vdisproportionate share of the cost of canal upkeep arid.operation..