PORTUGAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 January 1919, Page 5

PORTUGAL.

WHOLE OF INTERIOR IN A STATE OF CIVIL YVAIi. Lisbon, Jan. 14. The Government announces that the insurrectionary movement i 9 supported by Bolshevik agents, who attacked the Palace of St. George and were checked by faithful forces. The crew of the destroyer Giralda and troops at the naval arsenal revolted, but faithful troops captured the arsenal by assault. The rebels arrested the Giralda's crew and forced them to submitThe Government has taken severe measures. Nobody is permitted in the Lisbon streets after nine o'clock at night. The provinces are quiet except I Santaren, where the rebels marching on Lisbon were driven back.—Aus.i N-Z. Cable Assn. Received Jan. 20, 1.15 a.m. Madrid, Jan. IT. According to frontier reports, the whole interior of Portugal is in a state »f civil war. All communications aTe suspended owing to the movements of troops. Hantar.m is in the hands of revolutionaries under Colonel Figucrida of tlw Military Junta el Oporto, who is organising the movement with undoubt ed Bolshevist backing.—Reuter. BOMBARDING REVOLUTIONARIES. Received Jan. 20, 12.30 a.m. f 4 Lisbon, Jan. 16. The revolutionaries at Santarem iioi having surrendered wlttin the time limit, the loyal troops surrounded this town and began a bombardment.—United Sei< I vice, ~ . !