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NATIONS AT OUTS.I
Brazilian Government Sewers Diplo-
matte Relations With the Mother
Country.
All on Account Of the Asylum Given
Brazilian Insurgents by Portu-
gnese Warships.
The Incident May Be Settled With
out Resort to Arms, Or It
May Not. In.

WASHINGTON, May lbs enor Men
donca, Brazilian minister has received
the following cablegram from hi:
government:
The president of the republic has
suspended diplomatic relations with
Portugal, giving passports to Count
Parraty and the personnel Of the legs.
ton in Brazil, and ordered the Brazil.
Ian legation in Lisbon to with lraw.
Cause of the Interruption.
This interruption of diplomatic rela.
tons is the direct result Of the naval
commanders in Brazil in affo:ding
asylum to the Br; lillian rebels. When
Da CANA abandoned his fleet in harbo,
March 10, last, he took his followers
aboard the Portuguese msn of war
Mlndello, and Alfonso de Albuquerque,
Where they were sheltered. The Bra
lillian government
Pre- ferred a Demand
Tor their surrender, holding that as the
refugees were taken aboard the Portu.
guese vessels within territorial waters.
they could not claim asylum land should
be submitted to trial by the Brazilian
courts. The Portuguese commanders
refused to surrender the rebels, and the
nextday sailed away to the River Platte.
The refugees were the cause of much
trouble to their hosts, for after some
ugly complications with the Uruguaya an
authorities, growing out of the viola
ton OF quarantine regulations, the Por-
tuguese commanders permitted num-
Der OF refugees to escape on an Argen-
tine vessel. They were rec aptured, but
this involved the Portuguese in dis
pute with the Argentine government,
the result of which was that they were
obliged to give up their prisoners. who
at last
Attained Liberty ON Argentine Soil.
Meantime the Braz.lians had not
abated their claim, and insisted that
Portugal should return the refugees.
Clearly this could not he done, so the
result is, as announced in the foregoing
cableSram, rupture between the
parent country and Brazil. What the
outcome will be cannot be predicted.
Minister Mendonca, when seen, avoided
discussion of the future course of his
government
May or May Not Mean War.
A rupture of diplomatic relations is
sometimes tantamount to a declaration
OF war. tut it IS scarcely thought to be
SO serious in this case. It is difficult to
see how the Portuguese government can
conciliate Brazil, although this might
be accomrli shed by the surrender of
Admiral da Cana, who is reported to
be en- route 10 Portugal, and ample
apology. Portuguese pride, historical
in its obstinacy, will probably stand in
the way of any such concessions, and it
is more than probable that the two ma
tons will continue to stand in an un-
friendly attitude towards each other
until time mollifies the outraged feel
ings Of the Brazilians.
LONDON, May 15.-The Brazilian le-
CATION in this city has received the fol-
lowing telegram from Rio Janeiro:
President Pei1oto has broken off
diplomatic relations with Portugal. The
president has sent to the Portuguese
legation the passports for Count de Par
atty and for the members of the Portu-
guese legations staff.
LISBON, May 15.-The staff of the
Brazilian legation in this city has been
withdrawn, and diplomatic relations
between Portugal and Brazil have been
broken of.