REVOLT SPREADING

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 9 February 1927, Page 9

REVOLT SPREADING

POSITION IN PORTUGAL.

COUNTRY IN A FERMENT REPORTS OF HEAVY FIGHTING. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 1.25 p.m. to-day. PARIS, Feb. 8. Messages from the Portuguese frontier emphasise that the revolt is spreading. The whole country is now in a ferment. A general railway strike has been proclaimed. bailors from the cruisers Vasco, Di Gama, Carval and Hoaranja have mutinied, and have occupied several quarters of Lisbon. Fierce fighting is going on, the Government using a large number of aeroplanes to bomb the insurgent positions. Despite violent bombardments tlie insurgents at Oporto maintain their hold of the city. The bulk of the garrison has joined the movement, and was reinforced from Valencia in the teeth of a heavy Government fire from tlie south bank of the Douro. Many civilians in Oporto have been injured by machine gun fire. The insurgents demand the abolition of Carmonas’s dictatorship. The latter is reported to have ordered the arrest of 150 journalists and publicists at Lisbon for alleged implication in the revolution. OVER 150 ARRESTS MADE. FOUR. WOMEN AMONG THE KILLED. LONDON, Feb. 7. The British United Press correspondent at Madrid reports that more than 150 arrests, mostly of politicians and journalists, have been made in Lisbon. All were sent aboard two cruisers, but as the crews refused to embark them the arrested pei-.sous were transferred to a .fortress _ It is reported from Oporto that four women were among the killed, and fifty soldiers and 102 civilians were wounded. CRUISER FIRES ON LISBON. GOVERNMENT OFFICES CLOSED. LONDON, Feb. 7. A message from the United Press correspondent at Lisbon says that a cruiser' is firing on the town, and the streets are echoing with the firing of machine-guns and artillery. Shope are closed and the Government offices suspended operations. HEADQUARTERS OF MINISTRY OF WAR. LONDON, Feb. 8. The Lisbon correspondent of The Times, telegraphing via Madrid, says the Ministry of War has moved its headquarters forty miles south of Oporto. Several hundred arrests have been made in Lisbon, including the staff of the newspaper Mundo, which published an uncensored number. The whole issue was confiscated. —Times.