According to the correspondent of the Times, the Lisbon people
realise in the King's visit the revival of the ancient ties. "it is felt," he tells us, 'sin Portugal that all the traditions which made in the past for Anglo-Pcntuguese amity find in the state of international relations to-day fresh and even more con-. elusive justification." It is perhaps, he goes on, too little under-
stood in England how interested Portugal is in her colonies. Questions concerning South-Eastern and South-Western Africa absorb the attention not onlyof her rulers, but of the people, and Angola and Mozambique are names that figure in all the news- papers. "Portuguese national pride—more than ever since the Spanish-American War—inspires a fixed determination at all costs to preserve the colonies. If there be any one reason why the Portuguese in general extol the English alliance and rejoice frankly in the King's visit, it is because they believe, and rightly believe, that this significant event is an earnest of the maintenance of the Portuguese flag in the islands and South African possessions over which it still waves."
