MISGOVERNMENT IN PORTUGAL

New Zealand Tablet, 27 November 1913, Page 19

MISGOVERNMENT IN PORTUGAL

The Portuguese Republic is marching apace —no one clearly knows whither. At a recent meeting of the Municipal Administrative Commission of Lisbon, it was resolved to change the name of the street of our Lady of the Conception for that of the notorious Spanish criminal, Francisco Ferrer. At the same session, a resolution was approved of, moving that in one of the

government and social dissolution which obtains.. The public treasury is exhausted to such an extreme that not even the public functionaries, the clients of the Republic, have been paid for many months, . and dead with hunger clamor in vain, for the Government in vain holds out its hand to all the nations to raise a loan to meet its most peremptory necessities/