TROUBLE IN LISBON.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144082, 29 April 1913, Page 3

TROUBLE IN LISBON.

DEMONSTRATION BY EXTREMISTS MANY ARRESTS MADE. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. LISBON, April 28. The Government, learning of projected Monarchist, extreme Republican, and Syndicalist disturbances, ordered precautions. A hundred demonstrators, including many soldiers describing themselves as Radical Republicans, tried ineffectually to persuade the Engineers to leave the barracks. The demonstrators then proceeded to the Radical Republican Federation headquarters and received leather bags contaniing bombs. The police and Republican guards dispersed ithe mob. They effected arrests and seized from, the Federation officers a quantity of arms and also badges intended for rebels. About 175 prisoners were taken, including a dozen military and naval officers and a hundred soldiers.

Four dynamite bombs were found in the infantry barracks. Tho majority of those arrested are members of the Federation, including a general, Gnedes, its president. Two bombs wore exploded in tho Alcantara suburb.

The troops aro confined to barracks, The carabonerie are keeping watch over them.

A cruiser will convey those arrested to the colonies, where they will be tried.