THE LISBON PLOT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13672, 13 February 1908, Page 5

THE LISBON PLOT.

REMARKABLE STATEMENTS. SYMPATHY WITH ASSASSINS. "A JUSTIFIABLE ACT/' By Tileaxaph—Prc*s Aesosiaticn.—Copyright (Received February 12, 11 p.m.) London, February 12. The Lisbon correspondent of the Times comments on the incredible j equanimity with which the assassination of King Carlos and the Crown Prince is regarded by the populace. The correspondent of trie Standard says that the work oi the regicides is generally considered to have been justifiable, no real effort being made to discover the accomplices. Subscriptions are, the correspondent adds, being raised for families of the assassins, and Republican newspapers demand the criminal prosecution of King Carlos' equerry, who sabred one of the assassins. According to some accounts the public feel that Senhor Franco was too precipitate in abolishing sinecures wholesale and .in endeavouring to divide parties and then rule as dictator (Received February 13, 1.8 a.m.) v London, February 12. The Lisbon correspondent of the Times asserts that a previous plot against the Throne was organised with the tacit, if not the active, connivance of both Republicans and Monarchists. Yet three days later Senhor Franco, despite the ominous complicity of the population, induced King Carlos to agree to the initiation of what was practically a Star Chamber The assassinations followed immediately.

THE LAST LOOK. REMAINS OF KING CARLOS. ' London, February 11. The Lisbon correspondent of the Daily Telegraph states that 300,000 citizens viewed the remains of the late King Carlos.