IDENTITY OF THE REG – CIDES.

Colonist, Volume L, Issue 12159, 6 February 1908, Page 3

IDENTITY OF THE REG - CIDES.

MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED. FLIGHT OV FRANCO. " Per United. Press Association. £S? £ Lisbon. February i. Three of the assassins have been identified. They are : Luiz Lopez, formerly a commercial clerk, and later 'a director of the newspaper "Caxana, 9 * and proprietor, of a newsagency : Manuel Banssia, and the Spaniard Cordova. ■ •"Martial law has been proclaimed and 91 prisoners have been exiled^to Portuguese A frici. , ,?~*~- r"El Mundo," the Republican journal, states that the revolutionaries' plan 3 were matured with absolute secrecy, and directed by a Republican editor with the intention to establish a Republic bloodlessly. Many officers and non-commission-ed officers have been arrested at Badajoz. Further stores, arms and exp.osives have been discovered at Lisbon. The police killed many of the attackers on Senhor Franco's residence. „ , Several newspapers report that Senhor Franco has left Portugal as a precaution for his safety.