Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-25
REVOLUTION
is IMPENDING
IN PORTUGAL
TROOPS AND INSURGENTS
CLASH
PEOPLE ARE READY FOR A
REPUBLIC
REGIMENTS of Soldiers Whose Loyalty
to the King Is Que0tioned
Are Disarmed
BY Associated Press.

| BY Associated Press.
| PARIS, Nov. PA special dispatch from
Madrid to the Echo de Paris says 1t Is
rumored that collisions have occurred be-
tween the troops and insurgents In LIS
bon and that many persons have been
killed and wounded.
Persons arriving from Lisbon, the dis
patch states, report that Col. Tasta, aide
de camp to King Carlos, has resigned
and that several regiments of douptrN
loyalty have been disarmed.
All leading politicians, the dispatch
adds, are being shadowed by detectives
and many persons are leaving the coun-
try. The king has refused to sign a de-
cree extending martial law throughout
| the whole kingdom.
Reports representing that Portugal ls
on the eve of revolution are received
here with caution, as dispatches coming
direct from that country are censoreu
| and those indirectly across the frontier
are held more or less under suspicion.
Both the reports of the Punishment cl
| the Grown Prince and the mutlny Oh lile
| fleet are denied at the embassy here' new
| erthaIess, the making of arrests, the sus-
| pension of a newspaper and olner lo-
nressiye measures which have been taken
| by Premier Franco seem conclusive tha'
matters in Portugal nave ehtefeu "P0i'
a critical phase.
rrhis ambition undoubtedly has been
precipitated by the interview with King
Carlos, which was published last week
4, which he announced his absolute faith
in premier Franco and his intention 10
allow the premier to choose tine time lol
the holding of the election OF the cortes'
The parliamentary opposition Wnicn
has been stirring up the country tor
months past is expected, by a gigantic
demonstration planned for January q
next. to force the king to dismiss Prem
ier Franco, but his maJesty's bold IN
dorsemeut of the dictatorship removes
this hope abruptly, consolidating the en-
fire opposition in the direction OF repup-
licanism.
naner Vanguardia of Lisbon, which was
sunnressed is now in Paris and consld-
ers that republic is inevitable ana that
the issue will be decided before January
1. He declares the people are hostile 10
the dynasty and that the army is disaf-
fected.
Revolution May Come
'rTf the king abdicates," he said, there
will be a peaceful republic, as in the case
of Brazil. If he does not there Will DO a
revolution with all it's violences.
A correspondent of the Temps, vino mas
tust returned after an investigation OF
affairs in Portugal and who has had an
interview with King Carlos, Premier
Franco and former Premier Castro as
we'll as opposition leaders, makes 1t clear
that the condition of affairs is the out
growth of scandalous intrigues that nave
been going on for years. He says the
system was to preserve personal emolu-
ments, and whether in office or out they
protected each others sinecures, while
at the same time the members OF the
royal family got advances" which were
never paid back.
Premier Franco, when he assumed the
dictatorship, cut off the parliamentary
sinecures, arousing the fury not only of
the politicians, but the courtiers as WELL
and even the queen mother.
On the other hand, he legalized the
kings advances and increased his allow
ances by decree on the ground that the
civil list was so insufficient that the
royal family we're obliged to sell the
crown Jewels, mortgage their property
and hypothecate their holdings of govern
ment bonds. He. however, shrewdly in
creased the salaries of poorly paid gov
ernment employees ami the officers of the
army and navy, the net result of these
changes DeluS d ConsluSi dplS SaEHiS ~
the treasury.
Premier Franco, according to the cor
respondent, insists that the people and
the military are loyal to the government
and the king, and that the surface effer-
vescence has been engineered by the poll
ticians.
LISBON. Nov. 24-The government de-
cree Issued yesterday, in addition to ex-
tending the life of the DEGREES against
the press until the cortes assemblies, un-
der which newspapers of Lisbon and
Oporto were suppressed created an ex-
traordinary tribunal to judge without
juries persons concerned in conspiracies
or attempts to provoke risings against
social order and the security of the state.
The decree permits an appeal to the
court of cessation. but gives that court
.he right only to annul or confirm the
sentence of the tribunal.