"THE MAN FROM COOK'S."

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 83, 8 December 1913, Page 6

"THE MAN FROM COOK'S."

RUNS THE PORTUGUESE REVO-

LUTION.

Mr M. H. Donohoe, the representative in Paris of the London Daily Chronicle, and formerly of the Sydney Evening* News, was a passenger by the Orama on her last voyage from London, and is accompanied by his. wife. Mr Donohoe, who has had a distinguished career as a war correspondent, gave a Melbourne interviewer some incidents and impressions of the'Balkan Campaign, and of other recent European events in which he has had a share.

In a sketch of the revolution which overthrew '{lie Portuguese, monarchy, he said that when he arrived in Lisbon it was seven weeks in advance of the outbreak, "I saw the Chief of t he^remarked v ; /'He, ridicuL, ed the "idea?" Then'i stepped across the road to the Republican headquarters, and was told that most encouraguig reports were being received l from the country, and that the movement for deposing .the' Kun&.was developing rapidly: I Right'' opposite office thei'oliiwas tl# Sigh in big letters, 'Republican, party,' and yetthe Chief of Police would say there "was nothing doing. One morning the Republican party gave me a list of the Republican Ministry f*o be, and about that stage I began to take things seriously. I left Lisbon for Oporto, and got back again to the capital the day before the outbreak. It came a week eaiiy, and I don't think is is generally known why." Mr Donohoe here hinted that there was a woman in the case. "To begin -with," he said, "there was a certain doctor—a leading' doctor at .* big hospital—and he chose to take •'

fancy to the wife of a certain prominent citizen. The lady reciprocated the fancy, and between them t (

locked the unfortunate husband in a lunatic asylum, the doctor conveniently certifying to his insanity. But the citizen escaped, and fled to Paris. After a month or two there, he decided to come home and plug a hole through the doctor, and he did. -No one would have worried much about it had it not- been for the fact that the husband was a noted monarchist, and the doctor a prominent Republican. The news of the murder set the tocsin ringing in Lisbon. Every Republican rushed to. arms to avenge the murder of one of his party by a Royalist, ant before many hours the revolution \v> in full;swing. "I was in the thick of it, looking for incidents, and had the fortune, through my visits to the headquarters of both parties, to possess a passport from each. The first day ended rather in favor of the Monarchists., and everyone who was not thought the revolution was going to fizzle out, as the. Republicans were short of officers, but one of the chief men on the revolutionary side was Cook's local tourist guide, and he brought things through successfully Tt is humorous to say so, but he got two days off to run the revolution. When he applied for the leave he was asked why he wanted it. He answered that lie could not very well snr. Tt was tnc first revolution ever run by 'The Man from Cook's.' "