THE PORTUGUESE TROUBLE.
SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS
A CRITICAL SITUATION
Lisbon, April 22. Poktogai. agrees to respect the modus vivendi, and open the Fangwe river ioi British vessels. Pretoria, April 22. Paul Kruger, President of the Transvaal, jhas put a damper on the Boers' expedition, and arrested several of its leader^. Capetown, April 25. Sir Henry Loch warned President Kriiger that tie Boer Expedition was regarded as an aot?of hostility towards the Queen. It ik understood that the Governor of Mozambique stopped tho Willoughby Expedition, which was proceeding to. Mashonalnnd on express order 3 received from liisbon. The;" Times," in discussing the Maeh« onal'and emeuie, looks on the situation with Portugal as critical, and considers that the lives of foreign residents, especially British, will be placed in great danger in the event of revolutionary riots breaking out in the disturbed country.
London, April 25,
tb is reported that the Portuguese Minister has informed the Marquis of Salisbury that extreme action with regard to the Mashonaland dispute is unnecessary.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 94, 24 April 1891, Page 3
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