UNMOVED REPUBLICANS

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XL, Issue 8, 22 February 1908, Page 7

UNMOVED REPUBLICANS

STILL CRY, “ GIVE, GIVE!" The Lisbon correspondent of “ The Times” comments on the incredible equanimity with which the assassination of King Carlos and the Crown Prince is regarded by the populace. The correspondent of “The Standard” says that the work of the regicides is generally considered to have been justifiable, no real effort having been made to discover the r.ccomplices. Subscriptions are, the correspondent adds, being raised for families of the assassins, and Republican newspapers demand the criminal prosecution of King Caries’ equerry, who sabred one of the assassin l . According to some accounts the public feel th '.t Senhor Franco was too precipitate in abolishing sinecures wholesale and in endeavouring to divide parties and then rule as dictator. The Lisbon correspondent of “The Times” asserts that a previous plot against the Throne was organised with the tocit, if not the active, connivance of both Republicans and Monarchists. Yet three days later Senhor Franco, despite the ominous complicity of the population, induced King Carlos to agree to the initiation of what was practically a Star Chamber. The assassinations followed immediately.