THE UPHEAVAL IN PORTUGAL

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2465, 19 May 1915, Page 5

THE UPHEAVAL IN PORTUGAL

TRIUMPH OF REVOLUTIONARIES

MANY CASUALTIES

Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.

London, 17. A Lisbon messago states that t'he Revolutionaries have triumphed, aid that Senhor de Castro, ex-Premier, ds a prisoner, and lias been placed aboard tlio warship Vasco di Gama. Tlie Teport that Dr! Alfonso Costa (ex-Promicr) had been assassinated is denied. .

Senator Chagas lias been appointed Premier of the new Cabinet.

President Arriaga expressed approval of tie revolution. He remains President till the expiry of Ms term in 'August next. Two hundred were killed and five hundred wounded, mostly Republican Guards.

There were further disturbances yesterday. SENATOR SHOOTS SENATOR. FRESH DISTURBANCES. (Rec. May 18. 9.15 p.m.) Madrid, May 18. Advices from Lisbon state that Senator Treitas fired at Senator Chagas, who was travelling from Oporto to Lisbon to take up his office. Senator Chagas reached Lisbon in a serious condition. A gendarme killed Senator Treitas. Fresh disturbances have broken out. PIMENTA DE CASTRO. The-new Portuguese Prime Minister, General Pimenta de Castro, recently took the startling course of preventing the meeting of the Portuguese Parliament by sending troops to bar the entrance of the members. A correspondent in Portugal, writing some time ago to the "Manchester Guardian," said: "The general public opinion with respect to the Government of General Pimenta de Castro is that the future may be regarded as secure, and it is stated on all sides that if lie can successfully tide over the next few months then thore is a great possibility of the nation making progress under his conciliatory rule. It is practically an impossibility for aii.y of the leading polita! parties to govern, for the personal rancour is so intense that no business can be transacted, and most of the Parliamentary session is taken up by personal abuse and tbe exposure of scandals and official jobbery.