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...fighting began when President-Dictator Prageso Carmona of Portugal left Lisbon at the head of 1,000 picked troops to put down a mutiny and insurrection at Oporto, famed port city of the region producing "Port Wine...
With Big Militarist Carmona away, the little militarists began to play with guns. For 56 hours these insurgents** at Lisbon skirmished with the Government troops, and at one time seized the Ministry of War. Then, their leader, Colonel Mendes Reis, was sniped, and the insurrection became disorganized...
When Dictator Carmona returned to Lisbon, after putting down the mutiny at Oporto, he arrived in an armored car, and well supported by airplanes and troops, which enabled him to resume with bomb and shot his despot's grip upon the capital...
Meanwhile the British cruiser Comics had steamed up the Rio Tejo (Tagus), and was keeping London and the world informed about events at Lisbon with her wireless. It appeared that for two days the Carmona Government had deliberately halted all the railways, posts and electric communications, lest uncensored news leak out of Portugal. When the situation cleared up it was found that the U, S. Consul at Oporto had been extremely lucky. Five minutes after he left his room in the Grande Hotel do Porto†† a bomb was light-heartedly tossed in at the window by a passing...
Revolutionaries Cabecadas, da Costa and Carmona represent merely themselves and such officers and armed forces as they are able to muster in their personal defense. They were associated while launching the coup which ousted President Machada. Since then they and many another of their peers or henchmen have fallen a-quarreling over the spoils. So little interest is taken by the populace and even the army in their doings that the last three routine revolutions have been run off without the firing of a single shot...