TROUBLES IN PORTUGAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 14396, 31 December 1910, Page 3

TROUBLES IN PORTUGAL.

ARMY AND NAVY DISAFFECTED. WORKERS DISCONTENTED. By Electric Telegraph —Copyright. PARIS, Dec. 30. Alarmist telegrams from Lisbon state thht the army and navy arc disaffected, and trade unions are bitterly opposed to the Government, Tho Daily Mail’s Paris correspondent reports that the British Minister at Lisbon has asked for the immediate dispatch of a warship. He adds that tho Government has arrested conspirators who were seeking to re-establish exKing Manuel on tho throne. Le Temps states that Labour organisations in Lisbon arc raising demands impossible of fulfilment. Numerous cases of insubordination have occurred in the army,'and three cruisers have been sent from the Tagus on various pretexts, LISBON, Doe. 30.

A Government decree provides penalties for offences against the Provisional Government, and those spreading false and alarming reports; also punishment for broach of military discipline. THE RUMOURS DENIED. NO SERIOUS TROUBLE. (Received IVc, 31, 10.20 a.m.) LONDON, Deo. 30. Router says that the Foreign Office has received no indication of the critical situation in Portugal nor any request for a warship to bo sent. Inquiries in Portuguese circles in London do not confirm tho statements of a conspiracy, and the alleged , important Royalist movement is doubted, ft is generally admitted that the public •services are disorganised, discipline in ;he army is unsatisfactory, and tho behaviour of the public has deteriorated. Many labour disputes have interfered with certain manufacturers.