PORTUGUESE PLOTTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 101, 29 April 1913, Page 5

PORTUGUESE PLOTTERS.

THItSB RIVAL COTBRIES. A EEI&ONSTRATION FAILS. 175 ASRE3TS MADE. LJSBOX, April 28. The Government, learning of projected Monarchist and extreme Republican and Syndicalist disturbances, ordered precaution* to lie taken. A hundred demonstrators, including many soldiers, describing themselves as Kndieal Republicans, tried ineffectually to persuade the engineers to leave the barracks. The demonstrators then proceeded to the Radical Republican Federation headquarters, where they received leather bags containing: bombs. " c The police and Republican Guards dispersed the mob and effected several arrests. They seized the officers of the Federation, a quantity of arms and also badges intended for the rebels. About 175 prisoners were taken, including a dozen military and naval officers, aud 100 soldier?. Four dynamite, bombs were found in the infantry barracks. The majority of those arrested arc members of the Federation, including a retired officer, General Guedes, its president. Two bombs exploded in the streets of Alcantara, a suburb of Lisbon. The troops have been confined to the barracks, the carbonari keeping -watch over them. A cruiser will convey the arrested demonstrators to the colonies ■where they will be tried.