PORTUGUESE REVOLT
LISBON, May 26. Senhor Chagas has resigned the ship. He has lost the sight of one eye, and also the arm which was injured.
May 30. The National Congress on a first ballot elected Senhor Theophilo Braga President of the Republic by 98 votes to 1. Senhor Braga is a historian and litterateur and the author of 200 volumes. LONDON, May 28. Senhor Arriaga has resigned. [Senhor Arriaga was President before the revolution, of which he expressed his approval. He consented to hold office until the end of his term in August, but something has apparently happened to upset this arrangement.] [When Senhor Chagas was proceeding from Oporto to Lisbon to assume the duties of Premier ho was fired at and seriously wounded by Senator Treitas. The latter was shot and killed by a gendarme.]
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Otago Witness, Issue 3194, 2 June 1915, Page 16
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137PORTUGUESE REVOLT Otago Witness, Issue 3194, 2 June 1915, Page 16
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