CRISIS IN PORTUGAL
GOVERNMENT RESIGNS GERMAN CABINET'S MISGIVINGS (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) (Received December 8, 8 a.m.) ... LONDON. 7th December. Inere is a crisis in the Portuguese Government. Cabinet has resigned, consequent on the interpellation concerning the mobilisation decree. The Govtsrtiineht considers the interpellation inconvenient. The Premier' alone appeared in Parliament, when it reassembled, and announced that tho Government would not return unless the interpellation was withdrawn. It la reported at Copenhagen that the German Government views with misgiving Portugal's participation in the war. Apart from the fact that Germany will lose a considerable number of steamships now lying in Portuguese harbours, she feara that it will incite anti-German feeling in South America, especially in Brazil, disastrously affecting her future trade. TO PROTECT ANGOLA 1 . LONDON, 7th December. The Portuguese Expeditionary Force has Bailed /or Angola (Portuguese West Africa, the scene of recent invasions by German South- West African troops, for which invasions tho German Government waa reported to hayc apologised.)
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 138, 8 December 1914, Page 7
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162CRISIS IN PORTUGAL Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 138, 8 December 1914, Page 7
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