PORTUGAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 December 1917, Page 5

PORTUGAL.

LISBON COMMANDED. rO KTLLBD AND 500 WOUNDED. A MILITARY DICTATORSHIP. Revived Deo. 10, 8 p.m. Madrid, Dec. 9. The -ftgliting began on Wednesday night The revolutionary forces were entrenched oh the heights dominating U*bpß, and consisted o" Jhree infantry regiments,' one cavalry regiment, two jatterie* of artillery, and the officers >f tl}e military school, with twenty field jun«. During the fighting seventy were killed and five hundred wounded. Many shops were pillaged. A)military dictatorship has been established. It is stated Machado resigns the Presilenteftp and joins the new Government. ORDER RESTORED. OBJECT OF NEW GOVEEXMENI. 00-OPERATIDN WITH ALLIES TO CONTINUE. • Received Dee. 10, 9.25 p.m. Madrid, Dee. 9. A wireless message on the 9th stated that order had been re-established in Portugal. Senor Paes, leader of the Moderates, announces that the sole object of the new Government is to safeguard the country and the republic. It will 'continue to co-operate with Britain and all the Allies, and urges that unity in the nrmy ig indispensable, especially a at the present time. GOVERS'MENT OVERTHROWN* Madrid, Dee., 9. A wireless says: Following the revolutionary a»2 Food riots, Senhor Costa's Government has been overthrown and a provisional Government established under Senhor Pais, former Minister of Works ind Justice. NEW PRESIDENT Received Dec. 11, 12.15 a.m. ' Madrid, Dec. 10.' Piliintadft Castro will replace Machado ax President. after the revolutionary Cablet is formed v* _______ LISBON UNDER MILITARY CONTROL. Lisbon, Dec. 9. After three days' fiefte firing between the troops faithful to the Government and the revolutionaries under Senhor Pais; the Government, in order fo avoid disastrous dissensions in the army, proposed, a'ressation of hostilities and resigned. Lisbon is under military control. During the fighting the cruiser Ausco ,Di Fraia and the torpedo boat Gaind<ana shelled the city.