PORTUGUESE POLITICS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9071, 11 February 1908, Page 5

PORTUGUESE POLITICS.

Press Association—Copyright. Received February 10, 11.2 p.m. Lisbon, February 10. Three are crowds in Lisbon. A sympathetic service held at Sao Yincento on Saturday was most imposing. The bodies lie in state until transferred to the Pantheon to-day. The coffins are of costly wood in the form of ironbonud coffers locked in accordance with tradition. The populace yesterday passed in endless procession viewing the .remains. London, February 10. Lord Aberdeen attended a memorial service at the Chapel Royal. The Dublin Times Lisbon correspondent states that inquiry reveals that a raid and the arrest of a number of Republicans and the seizure of arms and bombs, made three days before the assassinations, prevented the execution of a plot to destroy the police stations and take advantage of the panic to pretend that a republic had been proclaimed, it being hoped to enlist the sympathy of the soldiers and sailors. The failurejof the plot led a small section of militant republicans to plan the assassination. The assassins did not number a score. They intended to murder Franco and all the Royalties. Franco’s escape was due to his walking instead of driving. Franco was a man of conspicuous integrity, and did not gaugeS the seriousness of the situation until the new Government forced him out of the country. The public has been pacified, and ihe general sentiment is now calm and loyal. Whatever coolness there was shown towards King Carlos, the sympathy of the masses is with King" Manuel.