17 JULY 1926, Page 2

General Gomes da Costa has not been able for long

to ride the storm which he started with the bloodless military revolution of six weeks ago. There was dissatisfaction in the army, and General Carmona, who was a member of the Government until a fortnight ago, arrested his former leader last Friday and became Premier. His next action, which seems inconsequent enough, was to offer the Presidency to his prisoner. This General Gomes da Costa refused and, preferring to leave Lisbon, started for the Azores a more or less voluntary exile in a man-of-war. On the same day General Garcia Rosado, who had been appointed Ambassador to St. James's, left for London.