PORTUGAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 25 May 1915, Page 5

PORTUGAL.

DETAILS OF THE REVOLT.

iT CAELB-paasS AFSO^HTION-COVYBTGHI 1.

t. + t * . LISBON, May ?4. Detsfla of the revolt prore tnat tli«y officers were without authority w^n SfLi cl th n men into the Btre«*s to defend the Government. The majority «of the solders surrendered without firing a shot.

tl,l attackers brought up artUlerv to bombard the students, who surread-red and were taken prisoner and placed~«ni warships A* the Chief of "Slice n 2 bemg token to the arsenal a ruffian approacued-and shot him dead' a feenor Xavier Debrito, Minister of Marme ordered the submarine Espadarte to sxnk the warships bomfcSmg the Government offices. The commander refused, and ako refused Ms own sailors' demands to ehoot thei&£

•»¥^P&* Santos, the hero of tha