Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-29
PRESENT TROUBLES OF PORTUGAL

Pending the result of the conversations
at Berlin over Morocco, which are SAID
to be nearing salts
Future factory conclusion: pend
ing also the progress of
~ucStiouS. the conflict In China and
other conflicts in the air. we may glance
at the situation in Portugal with proiit
Portugals proximity Ia Spain is ano. her
reason why there is probability of other
trouble besides that which Portugal has
had and may continue tn have with
'royalist raids The dispatches of the
day announce that Germany comedies to
France in return for concessions in the
kongo the protecto-ate over all Morocco
Meanwhile Spain is extending her
spheres in the Cherifian empire. where
she is being already attacked by the
troops of the Sultan Mulay-Hatid. When
France and Germany have ceased con-
versationS over Morocco. France viii take
hem up with Spain. 1t is then that
Portugal may be confronted with other
questions.
The present situation of Portugal is and
has been for months confessedly con-
used and perplex.ng. due in measure 10
he rigid censorship by government OF all
resulted I'm keeping both Paris and Lon
don in almost complete ignorance Of what
Mas going on.
The government at Lisbon has finally
communicated to the press what appears
TO be positive information that the mon
archist attempt to revolt the provinces
had completely failed, and that order has
been re-esta blished in Portugal
1t appears now that October ) the mon
archists. according to the Heraldo %.
Il - D., ..,,
by Nerin in twenty automobiles. Thi
novel army of invasion. in fact. was com
posed orly of the staff of the revolution
AIRY forces. Among them We're Capts.
Paiva Concerto and Camancho. NJ. Ravou
Chagas formerly commandment on tn
staff of the ancient gime; the Journalist
Alvato Chagas. Prince Francois Joseph.
n of Dom Miguel de BraganZa, and also
the ex-kirg Dom Miguel These wer
followed by > O01 men, the half of whom
we're armed with guns and the other hall
with pistols.
The Journal de NigO says that the rev
dictionary monarchists proceeded toward
the village of Puebla
Revolutionary de sanabria. PROVING.
Monarchists. They formed thres
and Christie. Their objective point was
Chaves and Braganca. whose garrfsons,
1t is said, pronounced in favor Of the
revolutionists, barring a few officers
who protested but who were promptly
overcome, brought before a court-mar.
tial and shot The populations frater-
lized with the royalists In two OF the
columns were two sons of Dom Miguel
de Braganza.
How much of the foregoing is exact il
is not possible to determine. but it has
transpired that there was little. If any
determination either of the people or the
troops. and this appears from the mani
fest failure of the automobile" demon
straton.
The reported presence of Dom Miguel
and his sons among the royalist demon
strators indicates that the movement was
conducted in favor of the Miguelis
branch who. 1t will be recalled, is 9
back number" having been driven from
the throne as usurper In 1881 since
the assassination of King Carlos and O
the Crown Prince LuiZ in 1908 rap
prochement has been brought about be
tween the reigning branch of Manuel l
and Dom Miguel, who continues to reside
in Austria in the Castle Selbenstein. Thu
Daily Mail. however, reports that Manue
| is i'm good health and Is still at his villa
| i'm Abercorn, i'm the suburbs of London.
1t Is manifest that these ''royalist raids
have been in intention more spectacular
than bellcose. They were doubtless or
ganized to create revolution by inducing
the people to rally to standards planted
In automobiles. The people who We're eX
pected to rally to automobiles failed Il
do SO and for the manifest reason tina
they preferred that their royalist friend!
had come in less fleet vehicles, with arm,
wagons. for example, filled with MUM
with ga "
alry-somethine. indeed. indicative 81
STAYING i'm the country and standing b,
those who could not desert their homes
The automobile eXCftes the diStrust ant
ill will of the peasant ut all times. A.
means of revolving a people in the
sense of mutiny II is a failure.
/ dare say We have not heard the last
of "royalist raids" into Portugal II
would, however, prove inter
Future estinc to learn the views Of
Capts Conceiro, Camancho
No1uS. Christie and Chagas on the as
sumed iiasco Of their reconnaissance in
automobiles. There is little doubt that
If there is to be another attempt to raise
ins,Irrection it will he undertaken by
armed invasion and not by the suspicious
flying machine of the road.
In the absence of the people to sustain
the royaiist promenade the raiders were
easily held in check by the government
troops operating from Chaves-Ninhaes-
Bra4anc and barring the roads 10 the
south Perhaps behind the veil of the
censorship there was some temporary
movement toward the standards of the
invaders. for it may he remarked that
the government dispatches allude vaguely
to the 'check of the conflict at Oporto
which broke out prematurely.
The London Times in abiding TO the
.'royalist rising in Portugal writes
Army officers are dissatisfied owing IL
the cove nment's want of confidence In
them in the employment of bluejackets
and .carbonarios' to keep watch over
the troops. The minister of wars resiE-
nation is attributed to the same cause
and the result may prove serious To thu
republican cause. There is general dis
satisfaction felt among republicans "A,
the half-hearted operations against Capt
Conceiro. The carbonarios. having a free
hand continue their arbitrary imprison
ments all over the country, disgusting
moderate people of all parties"
The carbonarios. it i assumed, play
some such role as the committees oi
safety which were formed during tn.
American revolution The journals OF
Lisbon are filled with articles rela
to the resignation of Gen. Pimenta Cas-
tro. minister of war; whose resignation
IL Is said, was due to divergence of views
with his colleagues in regard TO the mea :