* Full accounts have at last cleared up the mystery
of the Portuguese revolt. The rising which began in Oporto and spread to Lisbon was much more serious than the Portuguese revolutions usually are. The residents in the Capital are so accustomed to revolutions that they look upon them more as an inconvenience than a danger, but in the latest revolution the artillery bombardment was extremely heavy. It is said that more than two hundred persons were killed. The leaders- of the rising demanded the restoration of Constitutional government, and President Carmona, the Dictator, was determined that they should not have it. Oporto was lost and retaken by the Government forces. ,In Lisbon the rebels were hemMed in on three sides, having only the sea in front of them, before they surrendered unconditionally.
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