THE REVOLUTION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10116, 11 October 1910, Page 5

THE REVOLUTION.

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KING MANUEL'S FUNDS.

(Received October 10, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, October 9. It is reported that King Manuel has ample funds.

Members of the Royal family and many of the nobility made large investments abroad. Much of Amelie's fortune is in France.

NEW GOVERNMENT'S PROGRAMME. LETTER FROM MINISTER OF JUSTICE. (Received October ~0, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, October 9. Dr. Alphonse Costa, Minister for Justice in the Provisional Government, cabling to the London "Times," states that the Portuguese Provisional Government has received the final adhesions of the military provinces. The Government intends to develop lay education, strengthen the country's defences, promote self-govern-ment in the colonies, establish a real Budgetary equilibrium, expel the monks and nuns, and decree the separation of Church and State. ,

LEADERS OF Tfax, REVOLT,

(Received October 10, 9.30 a.m.) LISBON, October 9. One Admiral, six Generals, eleven ex-Ministers, two hundred university professors, and fifty-seven associations of an educational, agricultural, and commercial kind, initiated the conspiracy which overthrew the' monarchy. PRISONERS ESCAPE. (Received October 10, 9 a.m.) LISBON, Ocotbcr 9. A number of prisoners at Oporto broke loose and tired on their guards, who replied. Two men were killed and sixteen wounded. President Braga wul occupy a portion of one of the Lisbon paiaces. INSTRUCTIONS TO BRITISH

MINISTER. (Received October 10, 8.50 a.m.) LISBON, October 9. Sir Edward Grey, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, has instructed Sir F. Villiers, British Minister at Lisbon, to consider his position as for the present strictly unofficial. UNDER MARCHING ORDERS. (Received October 10, 8.50 a.m.) LISBON, October 9. Members of religious associations have been ordered to leave within twenty-four hours. A MARQUIS ARRESTED. (Received October 10, 9!20 a.m.) LISBON, October 9. The Marquis de rombal has been arrested at Lisbon for sheltering members of the religious orders and concealing arms. The Marquis is a descendant of the Minister of the same name who expelled the Jesuits from the country in 1759.

EXAGGERATED REPORT. DESECRATING A MONASTERY. RESENTMENT AGAINST JESUITS. (Received Last Night, 10.15 /clock.) LISBON, October 10. The accounts of the fighting at the Qnelhas Monastery and Convent, originally received at Madrid, have proved to be exaggerated. Renter's special correspondent at Lisbon states that it is undoubted that shots were fired, killing two sailors.

The populace magnified the shots into bombs, and imagined that a large force of Municipal Guards were inside the Convent.

When the gate was shattered, nobody was found. A search was then made for supposed tunnels connecting the convents.

The bomb stories inflamed the people, who were assisting the soldiers.

A church connected with Quelhas Monastery was wrecked, the statues, crucifixes', altars, and partitions being demolished and sacred relics stolen. One man put a stole round his neck and sang a mock Mass. The officers did their best to stop the ribaldry. A naval petty officer was severely reprimanded, and a young soldier, who was wearing _ a biretta during the search, was compelled to doff it. ' The correspondent, in explaining the strong feeling against the priesthood, emphasises the desire for emancipation of the clerical denomination from the "great roll' resolution rather than animosity against the dynasty. 'The resentment is primarily armed at the Jesuits.

The populace, in all other directions, showed remarkable restraint for so serious a disturbance of order, notwithstanding the total absence of police and the arming of a large section of the population.' The cruiser Newcastle has returned to Gibraltar.

Telegrams from Lisbon indicate that the Republic has been generally accepted throughout Portugal. The proclamation of the Republic has been formally notified to the Powers, and all colonies of Portugal have adhered to it.

ASSAULT ON SISTERS OF MERCY. A-XTI-CLERICALEXCITEMENT. a smooth Transition. (Received Last' Night, 10.50 o'clock.) LISBON, October 10. Armed parties on Friday night forced an 'entrance to Trina's Convent, Lisbon. The Sisters of Charity plnckily resisted. Twelve were slightly wounded, and were conveyed to the hospital, while the remainder were removed to the Papal Nuncio, where they will be allowed to reside. The search for arms was fruitless. Lisbon on Saturday was excited anti-clerically. The streets were filled with singing and shouting mobs. Tlie cavalry patrols and sailors>who wore guarding Morce's Church were shot at. | On entering the Church the mob i found nobody.

I The. stories of tunnels were renewed, and a fresh search was made. The Republicans attribute the shots from the monasteries to the priests wishing to create an impression that the disorder was a molestation. Colonel Machado, in an interview, commented upon the priests firing at the Guards who were stationed at the door to protect them. He added that Portugal, with lightning suddenness, would reach is normal life. The "Times' '' Lisbon correspondent states that the transition has been as smooth as if one Cabinet was normally succeeding another. There is no trace of reactionary resentment. There has been almost an entire popular weaning of Republican favours. The command to respect life and property was everywhere obeyed. Tiie citizens were ordered to respect the police, soldiery, and priests, There have been no movements in the provinces, as reported, in favour of the old regime. The banks and offices in Lisbon and Oporto are open. The deaths at Lisbon through the fighting are now estimated at less than two hundred.

EXPELLING RELIGIOUS ORDERS. Received Last Nieht, 11.50 o'clock. LISBON, October 10. (The expulsion of monks and nuns has begun. Cardinal Netto, of the Franciscan Order, has also been expelled. Bishop Boja has entered Spain.