ATTEMPTED REVOLT
FAILURE AT LISBON. SCENE IN THE CHAMBER. TWO LEADERS ARRESTED. fiV CAIiI.E-PUESS ASSOCIATION —CO?i' t-GHT. LISBON, Aug. 13. An attempt to carry out a coup d’etat was nipped in the bud. The Government declares that it is- master of the situation, claiming that an overwheming portion of the army is supporting the administration, which is confident of being able to ensure public safety. All the Ministers and commanders of the garrison are declaied to lie united in defence of the existing regime. Details of the attempted coup d’etat show that three officers forced their way into the Council Chamber and handed to the president a letter demanding the Government’ resignation. When the Minister for War refused to discuss the political situation, one of the trio. Lieutenant Sarmento, used his revolver, wounding the Finance Minister’s secretary. Sarmento escaped in the confusion, but was arrested later.
Further details of the attempted coup d’etat show that the two ringleaders, Captain Rodriques and Lieutenatn Sarmento, forced their way into the Chamber and demanded, at the point of the revolver, the resignation of the President in favour of Major Camara.
The President refused and pluckily flung himself, although unarmed, against the attackers, who fired, wounding the secretary to the Minister of Finance, another bullet piercing the clothing of the Minister of Justice. The officers regained the street and reioined Major Camara at the where a decree was signed declaring Camara dictator. Meantime General Carmona was most active, and secured the arrest of the plotters. The original cause of the trouble' is Jvelieved to he the appointment of Colonel Passes Souza is vice-president of the Council. The city is calm, but the Government thought it prudent- to withdraw to an aerodrome on the outskirts.
The War Minister was remodelling the Ministry, hut postponed the order to avoid the impression that the Government was acting under pressure.
This is the third attempted revolution this year, and the eighteenth since the monarchy was abolished.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 August 1927, Page 5
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328ATTEMPTED REVOLT Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 August 1927, Page 5
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