The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-15


London, May ia news agency
dispatch received here from Madrid
declares there has been received in the
Spanish capital information of a grave
revolutionary movement in Portugal.
One report is that revolutionary
committee is in control of the situa-
ton at Lisbon.
This information has reached the
Spanish ministry of the interior. Re-
be1lion is said to have broken out at
Ciombra, Oporto, Lisbon. and San
tarem.
People Beyond Control
Fugitives reaching Badajose de-
scribe the situation as extremely
menacing. Telegraph and telephone
communication has been severed and
the troops appear to be pOwerleSs to
control the people.
The Fabra News agency, from whose
agent this dispatch comes, gives it out
under reserve, but at the same time
says it believes the information prob
ably is correct.
Costa Reported Murdered.
A Reuter- dispatch from Madrid
says it is reported there that DR.. AL
fonso Costa, former premier of POr-
tugal, has, been aSsaSSinated in Lis
bon.
ocratic party in Portugal. In addition
to having been premier, he had been
minister of finance and minister OF
justice. He was the author of the law
providing for the separation of church
and state and other anti-clerical meas
ures. He had been described as an
uncompromisihg advocate of armed
revolution, and several times he has
been sent into exile He was impris-
oned as a ringleader of the abortive
revolution in January of 1908.
Many Efforts to Kill Him.
Attempts on the life of DR.. Costa
have not been infrequent. He was at
tackled by a man armed with a knife
at Santarem in July, 1913, and in Sep
tember of the same year. a plot to
assassinate him was unearthed. In
February of 1915, a young man named
Jose Silvas attempted to kill DIR. Costa
at Oporto. After this experience he
evidently went to Spain, for news
dispatch received in April said he had
suddenly left that country.
Signs of Grave Revolt.
Indications of a serious revolution
against the present republican govern
ment of Portugal have not been lack
ing. Reports from this country for
six months past have almost all re-
ferred to political disorders. There
has been serious dissatisfaction with
the administration of affairs, and the
government has been freely charac-
terized as drastic and arbitrary to an
impossible degree. The president and
his advisers have been called outlaws.
Political assassinations have not been
unknown. There have been bread
riots at Lisbon, followed by the proc
lamation of martial law throughout
the republic. There has been much
plotting by monarchists and the ar
rest and incarceration of numerous
monarchist leaders. The army and
navy have been suspected in their al
legiance, and officers of each branch
have been arrested. There has been
esta tablished the socalled republic of
Northern Portugal, under the presi-
dency of General Barreto, and there
have been labor disorders of a serious
nature.
This is the nature of the news that
has come from Portugal in spite of
the strict censorship maintained by
the Portuguese authorities.
From Bad to Worse
Month by month the situation in
Portugal appears to have grown
worse. The life of the republic of
Portugal since its eSta blishment five
years ago, after the assassination of
King Carlos, has been marked by po-
liticaI dissensionS and strife. There
have been frequent reports of royalist
agitations from Lisbon, but since the
beginning of the European war the
activities of another movement, the
democratic or radical, have been even
more threatening to the existing gov