STRONG MANIFESTO.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 90, 18 April 1911, Page 7

STRONG MANIFESTO.

THE REPUBLIC OF PORTUGAL GOVERNMENT APPEAL TO CITIZENS. MONARCHY ASSAILED. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received April 18, 8.15 a.m.) LISBON, 17th April. The Government has issued a strong manifesto to the nation, describing monarchy as a regime of treachery and rob bery. The Government beseeches the citizens to bury their private -rivalries and unite in choosing for Parliament men distinguished for their honesty and competency, in order to restore normal conditions, and thus definitely consecrate the Republic. ANARCHY IN LORENZO MARQUES. BOMBS BEING OPENLY MANUFACTURED. LONDON, 17th April. The Johannesburg correspondent of the Daily Express states that anarchy is rampant in Lorenzo Marques in Portuguese East Africa. The revolutionaries have determined to expel the officials and citizens suspected of loyalist sympathies. Bombs are being openly manufactured at Lorenzo Marques. CAPETOWN, 17th April. The British cruiser Forte, 4-360 tons, has been sent to Delagoa Bay. . [If, in considering what may be called the profit and loss account of th*> Provisional Government's administration since the Revolution, the entries on the credit side appear somewhat meagre, it mus'v be borne in mind (remarked the Li6bon correspondent of The Times on fhe Ist of last month), that the Government, being provisional, lacks something of final executive authority, and (something of the cohesion which it should natuTaliy acquire when it enjoys the support of a majority in th« Constituent Assembly, in lieu of the irresponsible adTice of its present unofficial following. Furthermore, it must not be forgotten thai although the nation as a whole has accepted the Revolution with a calmness amounting almost to indifference, the administrative and other changes contemplated, affecting many vested interests, - cannot be made in a day. There has certainly been a vast amount of work done, individually and collectively, by the several Ministers, and most of the changes made or projected have, on the .whole, been well received by the capital. Trade has not suffered, and the country's foreign credit — the touchstone of every political regime — has been well main* tamed. If the law has not beon treated with complete respect, order has at least beon preserved. Lisbon and Oporto, the centres of the nation's political activity, have been, for once, fairly united in the confidence which they extend to the Government. There can be no immediate question of a counter-Revolution. The man in the street is demonstratively proud of his newly-acquired citizenship, and sensibly jealous of the Republic's good name. This last fact has been repeatedly demonstrated during the December and January strikes, not only in the attitude of the general public, but in. that of the strikers and those who* have been led to believe that a Republic would mean Jess work and more pay.]