The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-05-14
BRAZIL'S DEFIANCE
The Republic Suspends Dip
1omatic Relations With
Portugal.
LATIERHAD GIVEN REFUGE 10 REBELS.
overthrow Of Dom Pedro Said To
Be Indirectly the Cause Of
Portugal's Action.
LATTERHAD GIVEN REFUGE 70 REBELS.

WASHINGTON, May IA, lS94.-Diplomatic
relations between Brazil and Portugal have
been suspended because of the conduct OF the
officers of the Portuguese warships in con-
nection with Da Gama's surrender.
Senior Mendonca, the Brazilian Minister,
this morning received the following cable
despatch from hisS Government
"RIo DE JANEIRo, May IA, 1894.
"To Brazilian Minister, Wdshington, DC:
1.-THE President of the Republic has sus-
pended diplomatic relations WITH Portugal,
giving passports to Count Paraty q the
personnel Of the Portuguese Legation at
Lisbon to withdraw.
s0Signed) MINISTER OF FOREIGN RELA-
TIoNS.n
CAUSE OF THIS MOVE.
"An / can tell you about this news" said
Senior Mendonca to a United Press reporter,
sis that it is the o~utgrowth of the refusal OF
the Portuguese Government to deliver up
the Portuguese gun boats in the Bay
Of Rio at the end of the revolution.
These vessels are thu Mindello and the At
fonso del Albuquerque and Admiral da
CANA, and the other rebels boarded them
when the revolution was over. Where these
vessels are now ] do not Know. b last
heard of them was when they left Rio for
the South. ! do not know officially where
Da CANA is, but I sow by the prints this
morning that he was at the mouth OF the
Rio de la Plate and presumably going to
Portugal
It is a matter of public information that
the feeling of Portugal towards the Govern
ment of Brazil has been hostile ever since
Dom Pedro was overthroWn and the Brazil
- Oz-.l141 o,AoI1solA1 nore, pn1ra tEu !
sent to Portugal and died there. All his
~sympathies and those of the Brazilian nobil-
ity were with Portugal and
the latter country, while not having any
authority over Brazil, looked on it In a pa
ternal way. AS soon as the Brazilian revo-
luton began last year Portugal lost no time
in sending gun goats to Rio, and from the
first the Rio Government looked with un-
friendly eye on the position Of that power.
There were ~out-croppings from time to
time which showed that the Portuguese
were anxious that the Brazilian monarchy
should be re-established, but there
was no positive evidence to this
effect until the revolution ended,
when the Portuguese government offered
refuge to Da CANA and the rebel officers on
board their gunboats in Rio. A demand for
the surrender of the rebels was made by the
Rio government, but Portugal refused to
comply, and the feeling of enmity engen-
dered BY this state of affairs has resulted in
the action taken by the Brizilian government
today.
WILL E BE WAR
Whether there will be war or not rests
with the Portuguese Government to determ.
inc. Numerous instances are on record
where diplomatic ENJOYS have been handed
their passports and sent home without hos
tilities resulting, but in the present case the
relations between the two countries are SO
badly strained and the action Of the Bra
lillian Government is such a plain defiance
that it is doubtful whether Portugal can
tamely submit to it.