Friday, July 20, 2012

Deporting Monarchists.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 20, 1912:
Portugal's Jails Crowded and Conspirators Being Shipped to Colonies.
    LISBON, July 19, (by Way of the Frontier.)— The monarchist movement is undoubtedly more important than was first believed, and an extensive rising, which had been planned in several towns, failed only because of personal rivalries.
    The troops are making hundreds of arrests. Jails are packed and courts-martial are dealing with the conspirators as expeditiously as possible, pronouncing sentences of deportation, varying from ten to twenty-six years. Those, condemned will he sent to Timor, Malay Archipelago; Angola in Portuguese West Africa, or Portuguese Guinea.
    The prisoners at Caldas, 58 miles north of Lisbon, managed to smuggle, arms into the prison and attacked the guards. A fierce fight ensued, in which several were killed or wounded.

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