Sunday, July 15, 2012

Royalist Plot In Lisbon.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 15, 1912:
Troops There Were to Proclaim Monarchy When Frontier Was Crossed.
    LISBON, (via the Frontier.) July 14.— The Government is now in possession of the complete plans of the royalists. These show that several regiments in the Lisbon garrison were in league with them, and it was arranged that these troops should march into the streets and proclaim the re-establishment of the monarchy on the night that Capt. Couceiro, the royalist leader, crossed the frontier. The rivalry between Couceiro and one of the principal leaders at Lisbon, however, caused the conspiracy to fall through.
    Although the royalists have been defeated, the republican forces apparently are not having it all their own way, and the Government is exercising the most stringent censorship on foreign press dispatches. It is estimated that up to the present the royalists have lost 250 killed and 170 wounded. The republican loss is heavy, but is not known exactly, as the Minister of War refuses to make public the casualty lists.
    Telegraph wires continue to be cut and bridges blown up, and troops are being dispatched by the Government for the north daily.

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