The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-31
PUBLICAN FLAG WAVES
 IN PORTUGAL.

l Lisbon, March S1-The monarchy tabHshed at Oporto and other dis |4cts in the north of Portugal proved l lbermeral. Barely a month after it's Ioclamation and enthusiastic vel bme, a counter-revolution within the Ky. secondlng the attack from out |de by the republican troops sent by | e government, succeeded with equal \ 7.husias1n in restoring the repubH- |an flag on the spires and steeples of ortugal.
 The royalists were Jed by Paiva Cou- 6iro, a, very brave and tenacious sol ker. but an ineffective organizer. The |5ntinued dissensions between repub- Ican faction led him to suppose the |~uent prop4tiOus for a. return to the |nono-Ghy, and without any agreement |'lrn tnN royalists of Lisbon and the outh' he nsced himself at the head pI the mona1thiEt elements of the lorth, and. at the head of several Ihousand troops, proclaimed the monarchy at Oporto and in the north .rn provinces.
 A provisional government was es- ablished; laws were issued, and local Administrative Authorities appointed everywhere. Couceiro expected that |ther victorious royalists risings Eould follow all over the country. In cad of this, the Lisbon instruction F Monsanto failed, and the same oc- |urred in other localities, while in (any centers there were no disturb |nces of public order.
 SG rS of the royanst danger, all
 yubIicans joined forces against
 hmon enemy; momentarily for
 clashing ambitions, and unit
 Pcomba the north Thousands
 ps, seconded by marines and ci-
 warships and aircraft, were
 full operation against the
 hist hosts, whose strongholds,
 CT another, fell into the gov
 Is hands, and the surrounding
 to was merely a question of
 came the sudden dramatic c1i-
 he royalist government had re-
 b appeal to the foreign powers
 recognition of their belligeren-
 publican officers in Oporto, who
 len meeting secretly and con-
 to bring about the downfall
 Kingdom" of the north, decid- - to wait any longer, as the ac- ptance of belngerency by foreign ,b wers meant the arrival of arms, bn munition and the moral support ihich would weaken the claims of a tpublican victory.
 Paiva Couceiro and his staff were ighting at Lamego on the 18th, and 4 that day the counter-revolution at jporto broke out. Sharp fighting oplS place; but the big batteries of eixoes Bay were in republican lnds. so that the warships could ap- &oach and land their contingents at Eporto without danger.
 I'The royalist "government' was plac- Ia under arrest; prisoners were freed, Iy the red and green banner of the 'epublic. The royalist troops return us from Lamego and other scenes hand fighting, weary, hungry and Iemoralized, surrendered and were lisarmed by the republican forces waiting them outside the gates of Dporto.
 About Couceiro there are many ru- nors. Some say he is still fighting, ,thers that he has been killed. com nitted suicide, or is safe over the Spanish border.
 The republican government is still n Oporto reorganizing public ser ices and reinstating loyal authorities. of arrests have been made, md many royaIists are said to have escaped into Spain, where they are Iisarp1ed by the Spanish frontier fuards.