THE LISBON CRIME.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13666, 6 February 1908, Page 5

THE LISBON CRIME.

A REPUBLICAN PLOT, SECRETLY MATURED. MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED. MANY LEADERS EXILED. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright, London, February 4. The facts now coming to" light concerning the Lisbon crime combine to show the existence of a Republican plot. The Spanish newspaper El Mundo states that the revolutionaries' plans were matured with absolute secrecy, and were directed by a Republican editor with the intention of establishing a republic, although without the shedding of blood. Many officers and non-commission-ed officers have been arrested at Badajoz, and further stores of arms and explosives have been discovered at Lisbon. The police killed many of those attacking Senhor Franco's residence on Saturday night.

Several of the newspapers report that Senhor Franco has left Portugal as a precaution of safety.

Three of the assassins have been identified as Luiz Lopez, formerly a clerk and latterly a director of the newspaper Caxana, and proprietor of a news agency; Manuel Boussia, and a Spaniard named Cordova.

Martial law has been proclaimed in Lisbon to ensure the restoration of public order.

Ninety-four political prisoners have been exiled to Portuguese East Africa.

Prince Arthur of Connaught, who is now in Spain, will represent King Edward and Queen Alexandra at the funeral of Kiug Carlos. The navy and army will also be represented.

Several of the leading French newspapers eulogise King Manuel's courage in ridding himself of Senhor Franco's " senseless and criminal policy of tyranny."

'EEGJME OF LIBERTY." SOCIALISTS' SYMPATHY. DEBATE IN FRENCH CHAMBER. Paris, February 4. Some of the Socialists in the French Chamber of Deputies submitted a resolution expressing Republican sympathy for the Portuguese nation, and hoping for the establishment of a regime of liberty. The President* of the Chamber refused to receive the resolution. M. Pichon (Minister for Foreign Affairs) declared that not a single Frenchman could excuse assassination. ■ ' M. Sembat, Socialist deputy for Paris, shouted, " Franco (the Portuguese Dictator) provoked the murders." Another Socialist declared that King Carlos " met with an accident incidental to his profession." (Cries of "Shame.")

SYMPATHY IN ENGLAND. VOTE IN THE LORDS. (Received February 5, 11.50 p.m.) London, February 5. The House of Lords, on the motion of the Marquis of Ripon, seconded by the Marquis of Lansdowne, silently voted in favour of an address to the King, expressing abhorrence of the Lisbon assassinations and sympathy with the Royal Family and people of Portugal.

AUSTRALIA'S MESSAGE. SCENE IN THE SENATE. •'DEATH OF A MONSTER." (Received February 6, 1 a.m.) Melbourne, February 5. In the Senate to-day the President announced thai the Governor-General, at the request of Ministers, had sent a cable in reference to the assassination in Portugal. Senator Stewart asked if the Governor had, in the name of the people of Australia., sent a message expressing abhorrence and indignation at the death of "a King who had dissolved his Parliament, had usurped despotic power, and taxed his subjects by decree''" ■ The "President interposed that he could not allow such a question. Senator Stewart endeavoured to speak, but the President checked him. Senator De Largie asked the terms of the message. The President: That the people of Australia desire to express their deepest sympathy with the widowed Queen and. their abhorrence of the crime of last Saturday. Senator Stewart: What'right hay© you to express sympathy with the death of a monster like that? After some disorder, Senator Stewart managed to ask whether the Government would send a-message of sympathy, in the name of the people of Australia, to the people of Portugal, whose rights had been grossly outraged. The President: The Government has no such intention.

Senator Stewart: You are a friend of tyrants.