REVOLT IN PORTUGAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14807, 10 October 1911, Page 7

REVOLT IN PORTUGAL.

MARCH OF THE REALISTS. FORCE OF : 12,000 MEN. ".*• Pt Telegraph— Association.—Copyright. • N Madrid, October 8. ; The newspapers assert % that the forces of the Royalists (who are seeking to overthrow the Republican Government) now total 12,000 men, and'that they are supplied with J 3o Krupp guns. ' " *.* x ,v { It is also persistently ' reported that the Royalists>• have • secured a Dreadnought and another warship. ; A few officers who resisted [ the advance of the Royalists were,tried by court-martial and shot. , ". ' The garrisons Of the captured towns are fraternising with the invaders! *' ' ' " * . Reports from Lisbon 'state that large Republican forces have . occu.pied, Br aga,nza: (capital . of the j, province of Trazroa-Montes) and Chaves, through . which; the Monarchists marched. L

CHOICE OF A KING.

HOPES OF DOM MIGUEL.

.. ~, . . Vienna, .October. -Dom Miguel, the Portuguese Pretender, who has been interviewed by the Neue Freie pfesse, states that if the present rising is successful ,the Cortes would have to choose between him and Dom Manuel (the ex-King). His sons have joined the Monarchist troops. <■•■ '" ".•"■ ■'"'-'• , !..-?. Prospects of the restoration of the Monarchy, Dom Miguel added,. were favourable, owing to the Republicans being in bad. odour. v". ~" ~;.,; THE MIGUEL DYNASTY. f The aspirations of Dom Miguel, Duke of Braganza, recall an interesting page of stormy Portuguese ; history. < King - Pedro IV., who became King of Portugal on the death of his Tather, John VI., in 1826, was at the time"jalready Emperor of Brazil., After organising the . Government of Por- - tugal on the model of the British Parliamentary system, he renounced the Portuguese crown in favour> of his daughter,, Maria da Gloria, a child of seven years of age. Two* years later Dom Miguel (father of • the present claimant and brother of King Pedro) usurped the throne. Then ensued a ~ period of confusion ! and misrule. ;.; i Pedro,; chiefly by means of a loan raised in England, gathered an army, and succeeded in defeating Miguel, who in 1834 renounced all pretensions -to the throne and agreed; to _• quit Portugal. Queen Maria ; then assumed : the crown. The f present ; Dom Miguel ' has '"■ ■ enter-tained-hopes ever ; since the deposition of ( King Manuel last year that a turn of events ' may yet restore his family to the throne. When interviewed at? Vienna in

January, last he said ; that if Portugal desired to return to Monarchism it would be obliged to fall- ; back< on '# the 'Miguel dynasty. ~ If the country-called him, he wouldf accept the invitation, but he would hot-force' himself upon the people.