PLOTTING A REPUBLIC.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 25, 28 January 1913, Page 3

PLOTTING A REPUBLIC.

THE SCHEME OF A TRUST. London, January 18. A plot is said to be brewing in London to seize and colonise a vast and practically unknown territory of 150,000 square miles in the extreme north-west of Brazil.

It is declared by those who profess to be in touch with what is going on that substantial inducement has been offered to a large number of British naval and military officers and men to go out with a fleet of armoured ships to seize Cunani, as the territory is known, drive out the Brazilian troops, and establish a republic on Utopian lines.

The leader of the enterprise is a Frenchman, Adolphe Brezet, who is said to have already prevailed upon a large number of young men*to accept appointments in the army and the pivil service that will have to be Seated. After three years’ service every officer will bo entitled to farming, 1 mining, and forest concessions. The men who are plotting to bring off this big coup hold their meetings in one of the London vegetarian cafes. Brezet is most hopeful of the success of the scheme. He declares that the people in that part of Brazil will never show any fight, and that even if they do they can easily be beaten. Mr. Asquith, in reply to a question, in the House of Commons, said that he understoood that an American trust had purchased 20,000,000 acres of land in South America, but he did not think this would have a bad effect on Great Britain’s meat supply.