ISLAND RISING
TROUBLE IN MADEIRA
LISBON TAKES ACTION
LONDON, sth April. A message from Funehal, Madeira, says that allegedly instigated by deportees from Lisbon, local troops, together with troops sent from Lisbon' to deal with the recent general strike, revolted and arrested the High Commissioner and the civil and military Governors. They took over tho telegraphs, telephones, and the Bank of Portugal's j local finance department, and nomin- j ated General Sousa Dias as Governor and head of :- military junta which has issued a manifesto declaring that tho movement is aimed at abolishing the revolutionary regime. The Lisbon Government to-morrow will dispatch a cruiser and machinegun battalion to Funchal. Madeira is regarded not as a Portugueso colony but as part of Continental Portugal. The "revolutionary regime" began in 1910 when King Manoel 11. was deposed and the nation became a republic.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 81, 7 April 1931, Page 9
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141ISLAND RISING Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 81, 7 April 1931, Page 9
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