REGICIDE CONDONED.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 120, 13 February 1908, Page 7

REGICIDE CONDONED.

PHILOSOPHIC PORTUGAL. AID FOR ASSASSINS' FAMILIES. THE ACCOMPLICES. BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. (Rec. Fob. 12, 10.14 p.m.) London, February 12. Tho Lisbon correspondent of " Tho Times " comments 011 tho incrediblo equanimity with which tlio assassinations aro regarded by tho population of Portugal. Tho " Standard's " correspondent says that tho rogicide is considered to bo a justifiable act. No real effort, is boing mado to discover tho accomplices of tho assassins. Subscriptions aro being,raisod for the assassins' families. Tho Republican newspapers demand tho criminal prosecution of tho lato King Carlos's equerry, who sabred ono of the assassins. According to 1 some accounts, tho public fool that Senlidr Franco was too prcoipitato in abolishing sinccuros wholesale. Ho endeavoured to divido tho existing parties, and then to rule as:dictator.

THE ROYAL OBSEQUIES. London, February 11. Tlio " Daily- Telegraph's" Lisbon correspondent states- that 300,000 persons viowed tho remains ofj;tho King and Crown Prince. FRANCO'S RASHNESS. NOT DETERRED BY AN ALL-PARTIES • i. PLOTSOUGHT FOR A STAR CHAMBER. .- (Rec. Feb. 13, 1.8 a.m.) . i London, February 12. ' " The Times's'" liisbon. correspondent asserts that thoiplot of-,January 28 was organised with the tacit, if not with tho active, connivance, ; gfj tho Republicans and tho Monarchists, ;Yet thrco days later Senhor Franco, dospito.th-Q ominous complicity of tho population 111 tho plot, induced King Carlos "to.sign a decreq initiating a court which practicnlly amounted to a " Star Chambor." Tho assassinations followed immediately. THE PRELIMINARY PLOT. , -The "plot of, January 28" is no doubt tho preliminary, widespread plot which was nipped in" the' bud, as narrated by "The Times's" Lisbon correspondent a few days ago. He stated that a raid, resulting in tho arrest of a number, of ''Republicans; and the seizure of arms and bombs,' was made three days before .the-assassinations. "This raid prevented the .execution of a ,plot to destroy the police stations, aiid'to take advantage of the panic to proclaim a "Republic,' tho ' plotters . hoping to then enlist the; sympathies of the soldiers and the sailors. V "The failure;of the plot led a small section of tho militant,(Republicans to plan the assassinations.' The plumber of; the assassins did not exceed a score.' They intended to murder Senhor Franco, - !'the .Premier-Dictator, and all the mcmbers.-of the Itoyal family. The escape of Senhor Franco - 'was duo to the fact , that, instead of driving' frojn the landing placo after the Royal party crossed the Tagu6, 110 walked.".- . -.-i' - The Star Chamber was a Court established by Henry'. VII in : 1487 to cheok tho power of the groat feudal houses. It afterwards: became an instrument in the hands of the Sovereign for the suppression of free ■ speech, and its arbitrary and corrupt, decisions becumo notorious. It was abolished by Act. of I't.rliament, in 1011.