Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-09
DA WIN OF
REPUBLIC
IS NEAR
BODIES OF KING AND PRINCE
BURIED
MAGNIFICENT CoRTEGE FILLS
LIsBoN's STREETS
Funeral Services for Late Ruler Arc
Impresslve-NeIther Manuel
Nor Queen Appears In
Procession
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revolutionists In Lisbon and Oporto
are trying to do. They want to drive
the people to revolt.
Police Are Baffled
The immediate danger of the situa-
ton comes from the fact that tho police
ore baffled and the government unable
10 ascertain the extent of the ramifi-
cations of the conspiracies which have
been indicated during the last fort
right by the discovery at the various
places of bombs, arms and ammunition.
1t was known that Premier Franco
was marked for assassination. That is
why he deemed it wise to flee. But the
assassination OF the king was not ex-
pected and it created almost reign Oh
terror in high places.
There is not the slightest question
that the plot was only half completed.
The murder of the entire royal family
was the scheme of the conspirators.
1t Is certain that other men had been
stationed at other points of the route
of the royal carriage that fatal aTter-
noon, and II the murder had not been
committed at the Commercial square IL
would have been attempted elsewhere
There have been reports of dissatis-
faction in the army and navy, but care
full investigation does not confirm them,
and it may be assumed that the MILL
tary is still loyal.
The latter part of this week the rear
grew that an attempt would be made
the day the funerals were held, Satur-
day, to complete the bloody work that
x-faS loft 11pfiOishad a week ago,
To prevent anything of this kind ex-
traordinary precautions were taken.
AT first the king insisted on following
on foot behind the coffin of his father
and brother, with his uncle, the duke
of Oporto, but was dissuaded by MS
mother, Queen Amelie, and the PREMIER
Admiral Ferreria, who refused to as
sumo any responsibility for such RASH
ness.
Stupid Censorship Exists
The censorship that Is being main
tain at Lisbon over both commercial
and press dispatches is rigorous. Thers
is in operation a regular star chafnper
to prevent any but the most rosy view
of the situation from reaching the out
side world. Even letters mailed at the
postoffice are opened by the author
tiles.
The foreign newspaper correspond
ents who flocked into Lisbon after the
tragedy were completely foiled for sew
eral days and were informed by tele-
graph officials, high and low, that the
censorship was virtually at an end.
By this means they were induced TO
file their messages in Lisbon. But
thousands of the words written by the
newspaper men never got any farther
than the waste paper basket.
The senders became suspicious that
they were being tricked, and this be-
lief was finally confirmed when sec
lions of news dispatches, taken at ran
0om in order completely to destroy the
sense of the text, were returned to the
writer's.
The censorship was applied in the
most stupid fashion. Not only was ev-
erything representing Portugal to be
in other than a state of blissful tran
guilty and deepest mourning elm
mated from the outgoing press reports,
hut whenever a censor, with half
knowledge of foreign languages, saw a
word that looked dangerous he would
extract a whole sentence regardless OF
the sense anC meaning.
Dispatches MutiIated
AS an instance, dispatch sent to the
Associated Press denying the re-
ports of an uprising at Oporto, was
inutilated by the arbitrary striking out