Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-10-10
FANATICS LEAD
RIOTERS AGAINST
LISBON CONVENT
Expulsion of Religious Orders
from Portugal Gives Ex-
Cuse for Violence.
IMAGES AND STATUES ARE
TORN FROM THEIR INCHES
Bodies of Martyrs of Revolution
Are Still Exposed to
Public View.

| LISBON, Oct 10.-The revolutionary
| leaders, having overthrown the mon
archy, are now confronted by the
| scarcely less serious task of putting an
| end to execesses on the part of the
rougher element of their own followers,
who, having had a taste of mob rule,
| are prone to continue lawlessness for
lawlessness' sake. The decree of sum-
orders gave excuse for brutal outrages
against the clergy.
The provisional government has now
recognized the seriousness of the situ-
alton, and today the police adopted
severe measures to prevent the popu-
ments and to check the demonstrations
| against the reagionists pending their
expulsion.
| Reports that the clericals were carry
ing on guerilla warfare from the
windows of their establishments In
famed the public resentment against
the relgionists. many of whom were
chased from their churches and con-
vents.
Fanatics Lend Mob.
The mob which battered down the
doors of the convent In the Rua Do
| Quelhas was led by fanatics and a
/ gang of ruffians, who seized to des-
troy everything in sight Images and
statutes were wrenched from the
inches in the chapel. affairs were
wrecked, furniture was broken and the
sacredotal vestments were carried off
by the rioters. Later the police recov-
cred the greater part of the vestments.
The district in which are located
Santos church and the French legation
was startled by the crack of rifles. and
at once a report was circulated that the
religionists were firing from the win
dows OF the church. The crowd fiocked
to the scene. but the military arrived in
time to protect the church and the le-
cation from possible violence.
Arrests OF disguised and fleeing re-
ligionists continued today. The discov-
cry of secret subterranean tunnels at
the inonasteries set afioat rumors that
many monks. were, still hiding under
ground awaiting favorable opportu-
nifty to emerge and continue the fight
against the new regime. To satisfy the
I
mean explorations, and in one instance
went SO far as to dig trench to locate
the tunnel.
CIergymen Are Safe.
AS was the case at the time of the
Barcelona riots. the popular feeling
seems to be restricted to the monks ami
nuns, and does not manifest itself
toward the secular clergy.
With doubtful expediency the bodies
of Professor Bombarda and Admiral
Refs. the revolutionaries remain ex-
posed at the City Hall. The Republican
flag hangs from the baskets between
which bust typifying the republic Is
draped In black.
Throughout Sunday the city was In
| festival garb. Thousands came in from
the country districts and visited the
scenes of the recent fighting. They wore
medals in the form of republican en-
blems and carried improvised republi-
can flags The bands played the re-
publican hymn, and the artillery fired
salyoes in honor of the members Of the
ministry and other leaders of the revo-
lutionary committee, who drove from
place to place amid the cheers of the
populace.
DR.. Costa. the minister of justice, to-
day ordered the release of Cardinal Jo-
seph Sebastian Netto, former patriarch
of Lisbon who had been seized and
ordered expelled from the country.
Costa explained that the real object of
the arrest was to protect the cardinal
from possible outrage.
The minister declared that several
| monasteries and converts belonging to
! Portuguese or foreign orders were
veritable arsenals and that the activity
of the clericals who persisted in obsti-
nate resistance to the advent Of the
! republic hastened the order Of expul-
sion which, he added was necessary TO
'tranquilize the public spirit.
1t is understood that all the officers
| who aided the revolution refused offers
of promotion. affirming that they had
done only their duty to the nation.
The Theatre Queen Amelia has been
renamed the Republic.
The government has decreed the su3-
pension by the cable companies of the
acceptance and delivery of messages in
code and cipher language.
| Antonio Almeida, the minister of the
| interior of the provisional government.
is quoted in an Interview as saying
that the fighting with the monks was
provoked by them, they having fired
upon the soldiers and people from tho
windows of the monastery without a
shot having been fired at them. The
monks. he said, evidently planned a
! counter revolt, He added that not
more than sixty persons were killed