MADEIRA REVOLT.
A MILITARY COUP. PUNITIVE FORCE SENT. Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright LOX'DOX', Sunday. A message from Funchal, Madeira, says that allegedly instigated by deportees from Lisbon, local troops, together with troops sent from Lisbon to deal with the recent general strike, revolted and arrested the High Commissioner and the civil and military governors. They took over the telegraphs, telephones, and the Bank of Portugal s local finance department, and nominated General Sousa Dias as governor and head of a manifesto declaring, that the movement is aimed at abolishing the revolutionary regime. The Lisbon Government to-morrow will dispatch a cruiser and machinegun battalion to Funchal. (Madeira is regarded, not as a Portugese colony, but as part of continental Portugal. The “revolutionary regime” began in 1910 when King Manoel 11. was deposed, and the nation became a republic).
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 7 April 1931, Page 5
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