TROUBLE IN PORTUGAL

Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1927, Page 2

TROUBLE IN PORTUGAL

[Australian & X.Z. Cable Association.]

ORDER IN PORTUGAL. .MADRID, Feb. .11. Complete order now prevails in Portugal.

General CJirmona has taken stringent measures to prevent any renewal of the outbreak. All the revolutionaries' property will bo confiscated. Tito leaders will be court-marl ialle;]. Civilians now found bearing aims’are threatened with immediate death. The martial law continues and military patrols are guarding the chief points, owing to the police having joined the revolutionaries. Many British and other foreign offices wore damaged. PARIS, Feb. 11. Senhor Costa, an ex-Premier ol Portugal, reveals some inner history of the Portuguese revolution iu 'tin interview which ho gives th,* “Mro Nouvelle.” lie said tile revolt broke out premature ly. It had been planned to occur simultaneously in till tho largo towns, but an unexpected incident upset the plans. General Carmona went to Oporto to commemorate the first Republican revolt of 18111. on a date that was held sacred by the Republicans. The cynicism of this act on the part ol tho authorities led the to prepare for a I ray immediately. I hoy telegraphed to General Carmona whom tliev described as an “Operetta President” asking him io stop burlesque comedy, and give up power to a responsible consitutionnl Government. It. enabled General Carmona to prepare to suppress the revolt. Senhor Costa declared that . General Carmona’s Government had dissipated a deposit of £3,000,(XX) in England land had negotiated a loan of £12.000.0140 on London, based on Portuguese tobacco imports, thus depriving Portugal ol an important source of revenue, litis had exasperated the Portuguese people, and had fanned into flame a spirit of revolt.