Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-26
|SUNEASy| LIGHTS ON VEHICLES
Fears Disorders at Elections Protest Made Against Enorc
for Cortes Sunday ing General Regulation.
WARSHIPS GUARD PORTS REGARDED AS HARDSHIP
Policy Relations With Directors Equipment
Vatican Not Approved. Will Be Burden.
MAY LEAD TO OUTBREAKS HEARING ATDISTRIcT BUILDING
Commissioner Rudolph
suppressng paraive Statement Of Accidents
Newspaper Defended Occurring Night
GUARD PORTS
Liberal Policy in Relations With
Vatican Not Approved.
MAY LEAD TO OUTBREAKS
Denial Of Possible Rupture Made at
Rome-Course in Suppressing
Newspaper Defended.

LISBON, August %. via frontier.-Seri-
Gus apprehensions Of disorder during the
elections for the cortes, which occur
throughout Portugal August IS. are en-
tertained here. due to the persistent re-
ports that the clerical party leaders are
preparing outbreaks as a protest against
its relations with the Vatican.
The government is taking the most en-
ergetic measure of precaution and has re-
called every officer. soldier and sailor on
leave to the colors. The warships Of the
Portuguese navy have been distributed
among the various Portuguese ports to
assist the military and civil authorities,
should district disturbances break out.
AS the government telegraph Offices re-
fuse to accept dispatches referring to the
possibility OF disorders. this dispatch Is
sent to the frontier by train.
Vatican Makes Denial.
ROME, August 26.-The Vatican au-
thorizes a denial OF the report that 1t is
on the verge of q rupture with Portugal
because OF the Portuguese governments
recent censure Of the Catholic Bishop of
Braga for suppressing Franciscan news
consent OF the government to do so.
1t was asserted at the Vatican that
there is no clerical plot for the overthrow
Of the Portuguese monarchy. and II was
further said that the presence In Portu-
gal of Alexandra Lerrou, chief OF the
republicans in Barcelona. Spain. has led
the Vatican authorities to believe the re-
ports that such a plot was instigated by
Lerrou in order to give their enemies
a pretext for an attack on Catholics.
-
gust 20 against the Objectionable atti-
tude" of Mgr. DR.. J. Tonti, the papal
nuncio at Lisbon, during the period of
tension between Portugal and the holy
see, the Vatican points out that the whole
affair has been greatly exaggerated.
press the organ of the Franciscans at
Braga, which had been conducting a cam
paign contrary to the wishes and the In
structions of the holy see.
Condemnation Of Newspaper.
1t desired, however, to avoid a repeti-
ton of an incident with France, when the
condemnation OF a newspaper by the
bishops OF Dijon and Laval, which was
conveyed through the papal nuncio at
Paris, gave the French government the
chance to declare that the action was the
Intervention OF q foreign diplomat in the
internal affairs Of France.
Therefore the Portuguese bishop at
Braga was instructed to order the sup
preston Of the newspaper. the Vatican
considering this action quite legal, the
bishop having jurisdiction over that do
cese.
The anti-clericals. the Vatican authori-
ties declare in conclusion, tried to distort
this into a conflict between the Vatican
and the Portuguese government, although
there was no conflict. This is declared to
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King Manuel to Pope Plus on the ami
versary OF his elevation to the papacy,
and also by the kings recent appointment
Of a new charge d'affaires OF the Portu-
guese embassy at the Vatican, Count de
Logoaca, whom his holiness received in
audience Wednesday