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SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.

LISBON, August 23. Like Spain, Portugal is on the way t< I a revolution. The newspapers to-day publish a start ling story of a plot that the Clerica party is reported to have planned. It is declared that the Clericals ha( : conspired to overthrow the Governmen • and establish r. military dictatorship. > The Clericals, it is said, are only wait 1 j ing for their Spanish brethren to giv I thorn the signal to rise. Supplies of rifles are being brough '■ into the country for the Republicans . I and there is other evidence of the pr< i parations that arc in progress. : Monsignor Tenti, the Papal Nuncie - has proved most objectionable to the R( 5 publicans, and as many plots again? - him have been discovered he has take > refuge in a fortress. = The general unrest prevailing in Poi - tugal is added to by the fact that tl: -1 elections take place next Sunday.

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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 204, 29 August 1910, Page 6

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SPAIN AND PORTUGAL. Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 204, 29 August 1910, Page 6

SPAIN AND PORTUGAL. Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 204, 29 August 1910, Page 6