EVENTS PRECEDING THE OUTBREAK.
KING ACCUSED OF WEAKNESS. SUPPOSED POLITICAL COALITION LANDED PROPRIETORS PREPARE FOR TROUBLE. LONDON, sth October. The Times publishes a letter just received from a well-informed Lisbon correspondent, who states that King Manuel's lack of force in political affairs, accentuated by public suspicion of his private life, has been rapidly losing him the esteem of the Catholics, who hitherto have been loyal. Private advices state that the recent attitude of the Conservatives has aroused suspicion that they have entered into relations with the Republicans, and many landed proprietors are making provision to go abroad in case of trouble, while capitalists are transferring securities across the border. The Court party are displaying timidity, prompting the belief that they will not offer serious resistance to a concerted rising. The absence of the Progressistas and their allie9 when King Man\jel opened the Cortes on 23rd September, focussed the growing criticism ou the King.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 84, 6 October 1910, Page 7
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153EVENTS PRECEDING THE OUTBREAK. Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 84, 6 October 1910, Page 7
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