New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-09
TO OVERTURN REPUBLIC
Roya|istS EnCamped in Noun
tains in the North of Portugal.
LISBON AND OPORTO QUIET
Cabinet, in Session Night and
Day, BUSHES Troops to Dis
affected Region.

Lisbon, July s-Thc latest dispatches
from the Mimic region report numerous
Isolated attacks on officials and other per
sons by the royalIsts, but order is being
restored. The high roads were found this
morning encountered with the trunks OF
huge trees which had been feled during
the night. The troops have assumed con-
troll I'm many localities while other forces
ere being actively pushed toward the from
tier, with the object OF driving the royaist
bands across the border. where the spanish
authorities are waiting 10 disarm them.
A column OF royalsts under Colonel Ca
macho has had an encounter with repub-
lican troops near VHlaverde. The com
manders Of the republicans, Lieutenant
Magalhaes. was wounded. but the arrival
Of artillery from Chaves forced the royal
lists 10 withdraw to the frontier with IN"
loss OF many men from shell fire.
A number OF royalsts to-day tried 20
blow up a bridge over the River Mimic
near the town Of Gamma, but caused Only
slight damage.
Although many OF the royalsts have
been subdued or arrested. two important
attachments stu maintain activity. one
OF them is commanded by Captain Cou-
ceiro. with headquarters near the town OF
Montelegre. The men are well armed with
rifles, revolvers and knives.
a second force Of monarchists according
70 the last report received was marching
from Verin TO Chaves. I'm the Province OF
Traz- Os- Monies
The Cabinet, which remains In session
night and day, is rushing troops and war
vessels TO the north.
No royalist movement has broken out
vet. either in Lisbon or Oporto, but the
government, fearing an outbreak at Opor-
10. is concentrating large force there ana
,s distributing other troops along the from
tier.
Tb. battIeship Vasco da CANA, carrying
troops and machin@ guns, and the cruisers
panuhIica and Almirante Refs have arrived
at Oporto.
TELEGRAPH wires between Braga ana wan
ma de CASTILLO have been cut. and the Es-
pezende Railroad has been cut and blocked
with timber at Barrellos, where martial
law has been proclaimed.
AT Moreira de Rey the population mas
raised royal standards on the houses and
TONED the rebels in fight with the Re
publicau Guard, during which many on
each side were killed or wounded
An attack on Valenca de Mimic by a
fore. of royalsts led by Captain Sepul-
veda. formerly aid Ia Queen Maria Pa
was repulsed. The captain, thirteen other
officers and forty Of the royalist troops re-
treated across the international bridge over
the Mimic, where they fell into the arms
NJ the Spanish troops and were arrested.
Others escaped by swimming the river.
II "a alleged here that the Carlist leaders
IN Spain are secretly helping the Portu-
suese royalists and that many OF them
ara now in Portugal endeavoring to spread
the monarchist revolt
Madrid, July s-Prcmier Canaiejas de-
o,ared IN An interview to-day that strictest
orders have been given to prevent Portu-
guese conspiracies from being arranged on
sna n,sh territory. He said that all the
lenders and accomplices will be arrested.
Spain is considerably incommoded by the
interruption Of the telegraph owing to the
royalist uprising in Portugal but II fs
believed here that the movement Is OF little
inheritance and has already virtually col
lapsed.
Oficial dispatches received here from
orense and Verin, however. state that two
columns each Of three hundred monarch
lists we're encamped last evening on the
portuguese mountains. A few skirmishng
encounters between these columns and the
portuguese troops and mounted police have
occurred, but practically without any re-
suit.
The Mayor of another town on the Portu-
euese frontier reports the passage there Of
three hundred mounted Portuguese royal
lists.
II Ia believed here that the arms carried
nv the Portuguese royalists were manu-
featured In Spain and were originally in
tended for the revolutionists in Mexico and
paraguay. but were eventually bought by
the Portuguese rebels.