AFFAIRS IN PORTUGAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 June 1912, Page 6

AFFAIRS IN PORTUGAL

LATEST CABLES

NEW CABINET! FORMED

[per press association—copyright.]

LISBON, June 17. Dr. Duarte Leite has formed a Cabinet. Senhor Vasconcelles. .is; Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Colonel Bareto, Minister for War. t a ■ —

THE NEW REGIME. “The prospects are not very bright for 'the. Republic," writes Mr A. E. G. Bell in the Contemporary Review. It has taken for its motto, Order and Work, but its history has hitherto been one of strikes and disorders,, so that a Republican journal, ’0 Intransigente,’ could say in December, 1911, that the Republic in fourteen months /had done more harm than fourteen years of monarchical politics. The Republic is in as great a danger from , its friends as from its enemies. It has to fear the discontent of the devout inhabitants of the North, of the underpaid workmen- throughout the country districts, of the workmen of advanced doctrines-in the towns; it has to fear a military pronunciamento in Portugal, an attack of' Royalists along the frontiers of Mirijo and Traz-os-Montes. But above all it has much to fear from those hysterically ardent ..Republicans to whom the Republic has brought the consiousness of possessing secret power, and who pursue with personal rancour those who are inclined to moderate courses. “It would have berm well for the Republic could the "secret society of Carbonados have been disbanded in October, 1910; but they ‘ hi|,ve, on the contrary, increased and multiplied. They have been allowed to make arrests freely, and seem upon several occasions to have terrorised the Government into employing quite disproportionate methods, to ensure’ order, or perhaps, to prolong disorder and an abnormal situation in which -the Carbonados might display their readiness to saorivoe themselves for the Republic and lind, if not any material advantage, at, least the pleasant sense of their own • importance, They have overrun the country, spying, accusing, arresting.” Mr 801 l adds that the ImnishmeiK. if independent judges to Goa, the outcry of the Radical press, when a Royalist pi miner is acquitted, the punishment of 30 parish priests of Lisbon for sigm-ig ’an address of sympathy with their banished Patriarch, are “a few sighs but of many of a narrow inquisitorial spirit from whi h it is idle to expect any greatness or prosperity to come.”