PORTUGAL'S TROUBLE AN ADDRESS FROM BRITISH PARLIAMENT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 31, 6 February 1908, Page 7

PORTUGAL'S TROUBLE AN ADDRESS FROM BRITISH PARLIAMENT.

A KINDLY KING. CALM COURAGE OF A NOBLE WOMAN. By relesrajh.— Pre«« AMoeintion.— Copyright. (Received February 6, 8 a.m.) LONDON, sth February. The Prime Minister, Sir H. Cainp-bell-Bannerman, moved, in the Houso of Commons, an address expressing horror and indignation at the mad revolting crime, which ended in the death of the King and Crown Prince of Portugal, and sympathy with th« suffering family and people. He eulogised the manly, friendly, kindly King and his son, so full of youthful hope and \promise, and referred to the calm courage of- a noble woman. Mr. Akers-Douglas, a former Horns Secretary, seconded Iho adoption of the address, and the motion was carried without debate. PORTUGUESE' ATTACHED TO MONARCHY. NO DANGER OF \ REVOLUTION. (Received February 6, 9.12 a.m.) LISBON, sth February. Admiral Ferreira do Amaral, the Portuguese Premier, interviewed, said the Portuguese were devotedly attached to tho monarchy, and even if a revolution had been possible, Saturday's crime would prevent its realisation. AN INNOCENT MAN SHOT. i SENHOR FRANCO'S RETIREMENT. ! LISBON, sth February. One of tho three men killed a3 nssassins of the King of Portugal was innocent. LONDON, sth February. Tho Spectator says that Senhor Franco has definitely retired from politics. SCENE IN FEDERAL SENATE. SOME DISORDER. *"YOU ARE A FRIEND OF TYRANTS." "MELBOURNE, sth Fobruary. In the Senate the president announced that the Govemor-Gcneral, at the request of Ministers, had sent a cablegram with inferonco to tho assassination in Portugal. Senator Stewart asked if the Governor had, in the name of the people of Australia, sent a message expressing abhorrenco and indignation at the death of a King who had dissolved his Parliament, had usurped despotic power, and taxed his subjects by decree. The president interposed, and said ho could not allow such a question. Senator Stewart endeavoured to speak, but the president checked him. Senator do Largie asked tho terms of tho "message. Tho president said that the- message ' stated that the people of Australia desire to express deepest sympathy with the widowed Queen and abhorrence of tho crime of last Saturday. Senator Stewart : What right have you to express sympathy with the death of a monster like that? At ter some disorder, Senator Stewart managed to ask whether the Government would Bend a message of sympathy in thd name of the people of Australia- to tho people of "Portugal, whose rights had been grossly outraged. v Tho president said the Government had no such intention. Senator Stewart : You are a friend of tyrants. Senator Ste-wart is one of the Queersland representatives. Ho was born in Banffshire, ahd after being clerk in a solieltor's office arid later in business as a coal merchant in Glasgow, arrived in Rockhampton, Queensland, in 1888. A HOUSE OF LORDS RESOLUTION. LONDON, sth February. On the motion of Lord Ripon, Lord Privy Seal, seconded by Lord Lansdowne, Leader of the Opposition, the Eous3 of Lords silently carried an addres« to the King expressing abhorrence of the as3as3ination,>. and sympathy with the Royal family and the people of Portugal. NEW MINISTER OF WAR. (Received February 6, 9.12 a.m.) LONDON, sth Fobruary. General Sebastian Telles has replaced General Nunes as Portuguese Minister of War.