The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-25
Portugal Is Torn kundeI By
 Acts of the King
PREMIER FRANCO ID BLAME
King Carlos Has Been Led To Commit Acts Which lnflame the People and Republic Is Prob
 able Result.

Paris, November 24.-Reports represent ing that Portugal is on the eve of revo- 1ution are received here with caution, as dispatches coming direct from that coun- try have been censored, and those di- rectly across the frontier are held more or less under suspicion. Both the re- ports of the punishment of the Crown Prince and the mutiny of the fleet are denied by the Portuguese embassy here; nevertheless, the making of arrests the suspension of a newspaper and other re- pressive measures which have been talk en by what Premier Franco terms 'an administrative dictatorship seems con elusive that matters in Portugal have entered upon critical stage.
 This condition undoubtedly has been precipitated by the interview with King Carlos, which was published last week, in which he announceu his absolute faith in Premier Franco and his inten- ton to allow the premier to choose the time for the holding of the election of the Cortes. This parliamentary opposi- tion, which has been stirring up the country for months past, expected by a gigantic demonstration planned for oan- uary 2 next, to force the King to dismiss Premier Franco, but his majestys bold indorsement of the dictatorship removes this hope abruptly, consolidating the entire opposition in the direction of re- publcanism.
 Senor Lima, the proprietor of the news paper Van Guardia of Lisbon, which was suppressed. is now in Canada and con siders that a republic is inevitable and tho issue will be decided before Janu- ary 1. He declares that the people are hostile to a dynasty and that the army is disaffeeted.
 "If the King recedes," he says, there will be peaceful republic, as in the case of Brazil. If he does not there will be revolution with all it's violent conse- quences."
 A correspondent of the Temps. who has just returned after an investigation of affairs in Portugal, makes clear that the situation is the outgrowth of scandalous political conditions and affairs which have been endured for years.
 Premier Franco. when he assumed the dictatorship, cut off parliamentary sine cures. arousing the fury not only of the politicians, but of the courtiers as well, even the queens mother
 On the other hand, he iegalzed the Kings advances and increased his allow ances on the ground that the civil list was so insufficient that the royal family were obliged to sell the crown jewels, mortgage their property, and hypothecate their holdings of government bonds. He. however, shrewdly increased the salaries of the poorly paid government employees and the officers of the army and the navy, being considerable saving to the treas ury.
 A report dispatched from Madrid to tho Eho de Paris says it is rumored that col lisions have occurred between the troops and insurgents in Lisbon and that many persons have been killed and wounded.
 Persons arriving from Lisbon, the dis patch states, report that Colonel Tasta, aid de camp to King Carlos. has resigned and several regiments of doubtful loyalty have been disarmed. All leading poli- ticians. the dispatch adds, are being shadowed by detectives, and many per sons are leaving the country. The King has refused to sign a decree extending martial law throughout the whole king dom