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Inggage carrier at the brok, a drawer iddo the boot in flited to stow spare tyres, tubes eto. In place of the usual folting front glass screen, a diop
curtain is attached to the front of the hood with large celluloid panels with side curtains to button all round the car, completely enclosing it. Luxury and comfort in the up. holstering, with brass fittings wherever possible give the car a very handsome appearance.
TURMOIL IN PORTUGAL
DICTATORSHIP LEADS TO A NATIONAL OBIRIN. The movement against absolutism in Portugal has assumed tooh dimensions that the country, according to Madrid telegrams, is on the brink of revolution, The Portuguese authorities are rigorously cansoring all lelegrama, bat newa baa reached Madrid that many Monarchists have deserted King Charles, and that the army reservists have been mobiilsed, in anticipation of a conflict with the revolutionaries,
London, November 15th. The press view of the Olympia Show on Saturday afternoon was not very estisfactory. Everything was, anturally, in a stats of "about to be "whithout metually boing. Moreover, wa kept continually getting lu the way of the brey dozens of men engaged in the arreagement of the stands, to our discomfort and their annoy. anos. So those of us who were forianate enough in not having to write all about what had no yet happened, adjourn. to an jacent hostelrie. On Monday, however, there was a transformation; and where had 'been sackeloth, wrapping paper, a mess of ratidy ropes, wires and odds and ends, was a motor-paradise. Illuminations, decorations, the arrangement of
It is ovos, declared that the Lisbon garrison the stande, everything is on a scale of magnißeard the crews of the warships in the harbour ence unequalled by provispa ochibitions of the have mutinied. The prisons are filled with kind-s we were promised it should to The political suspects, and the Government is utilis Bhow was opened by His Royal Highness the ing two transporte in the harbour and a orniser
as prison
ships Duke of Connaught, on Monday morning, and was available to the public at noon.
that we were
Meanwhile, the King romains in bis palaos, guarded by loyal troops, the Crown Prince is exiled at Villa Viooss because he suggested that his father should either abolish the dictatorship or abdicate, and Prince Miguel of Breganas, the Portuguese Protonder who is in Austria, is closely following the situation, hoping that the overthrow of the present Government may bring him to the throne
Viens, November 24.
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The supporters of Frince Miguel of Braganer, the Poringusse pretender, are much encouraged by the reports of the dynastic orisis in Portugal. republie would ultimately result in Prinos Miguel being summoned to the throne. How- ever, the strong position taken by the Crown Prince excites the fear that the latter may bring about his father's deposition and his own elevation to the throne. коне
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Madrid, Nov. 25 The nucensored messages from Portugal regarding the political crisis have hou followed by this nemal sod of official daníais,
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A strong effort is being made by the Poin guese Government to counteract the offset of the reports pablished abroad during the post Those denials, however, must be five days. accepted with reserve, for the continued rigid A
angorahip is in itself proof that the politic 1 troubles are souts.
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that Lisbon is quiet, and the sworting Republicans pasifts, the Fortuguese Govern. ment nevertheless refuse to permit the foreign correspondouts at the capital to send mg A WRITTEN GUARAN PEE GIVEN The Crown Prinos Louis Philippa of Por-raefeating in the slightest manner on Senhor tagal has bien banished by the King to the Franco's administration.. royal residence at Villa Vicoss, a hundred miles from the capital, occupying an isolated position. Strict cancership makes impossible to obtain news regarding the sitostion in Portugal direct, but the above statement is obtained from a well inform d Portuguese sourer.
Madrid, Nov, 22.
The King has taken this extreme measure in asnsequence of a remonstrange made by the Crown rinca to his father against the régime now obtaining in Portugal. Prisce Louis Philippe, whose antagonism to the dictatorship is well known, represented to his father the insdvisability of continuing the present mode of government, which, he said, wax
tarning Portugal iuto a hotbed of Republicans and Anarchists,"
which might in quo end result and in the overthrow of the monarchy.
King Charles was no incensed at thems strong representations that he immediately ordered his uit banishment which has caused great excitement in Portugal,
On entering, one is embarrased by the mutiplicity of the exhibits, and realises, perhaps for the first time fully, the extent and impor ance of the automobile industry. The next impresion conveys the comforting reduction that British-made motor vehicles equal, if they do not surpass, their foreign rivala, both w regarde design, efficiency and price-tbat England can boid her own, and more than her own in this department, despite the fact
■ little late in-following–the |- lead set by European donatrios, notably by France. It would be impossible in the short space allotted to these notes to attempt to deal adequately with all that there is `n view, The var is, of course, the main object of nterest, and the one thing that must impras itself upon all cless observor is the general uniformity prevailing in the matter of car construction. This indicates what I have before referred to-the high perfection to which the modern automobile has been brought, with an inevitable tendency to standardising- This should gladden the heart of the Eastern would-be motorist who fears to ciek parolasing
car which two or three years may render obsolete. Further, it opens present possibilities of cheapness such as were not dreamed of a few years ago, though not to the erlent which some writers have thought ft to prophesy.
It is, however, trus that firme which have given a good deal of attention to higher-priced oses, are now turn- ing to types more likely to attract the smaller purchaser. That there has been an overproduc Bon during the past year there can be no doubt, but it will not be the beat-repated firms who will lower their prices below cost in order to get rid of surplas stocks. It will be the weaker firme that will go to the wall, if the orisis, which some say is now upon us, comes to a bead; but cars bought oheaply under these circometanoss cannot be expected to be turned ont, especially for export, with that attention
Buduses in the capital in at a standstill. to detail and carefn! · adjustment - necessary
Hundreds of arrests have been made by the to ensure fall satisfaction to the purchaser. authorities. The civil and military prisons are Hence bayers can have little to gain by waitingfail, and it is rumoured that polition suspects in the hope that they may get really good sars are now being quartered on two old transports for next to nothing after a few months in the Tegas. or even during the next twelve months. Thus, when I speak of "ponsibilities of cheapness," I
£1,000 and 21,2 D cars to be had for anything from £250 to £409, șa some imaginative people are saying will be the asse after the Show is over, if the demand does not respond to its stimulas.
The Crown Prince is said to be under the influsses of the Conservatives, who, led by Benhor Vilhena, desire the abdication of King Charles in Ivour of his son.
The Liberal" insists that the Crown Prince was banished from Lisbon to Villa Vivoca because the Peluce aged his father either to bolish the present dictatorship or abdicat in him favour. The Prince is said to have the support of a number of revolutionary Isadora na well as the Conservativan.
The Madrid newspapers have telegraphed repeatedly to their Lisbon correspondents with- ont readiving any responss, and while certain Press messages are coming through, they deal only with non-political matters and statements favourable to Senhor Franco.
The Portugaass Government has SVOE refused to permit certain Monarchist and Republican leaders to telegraph their views of the situation to Madrid
It is evident, therefore, that Senhor Frano is confronted with an exceedingly grave problem, and one requiring immediate solution."
While the Republicans and their supporters may not be prepared to drive King Charles from his throne immediately, they are obviously determined to abolish the dictatorship at ali hazards.
According to a letter received to day, via Badejon, from reliable correspondant at Lisbon, the preparations for a display of armed force are wholly on the side of the Government. The Opposition have not made the slightest effort to rally the disaffected troops although several loaders, holding extrame views, favour such
A measure.
Some
one divergence of opinion apparently existe among the Republicans, and a secret couferepoe is to be held at Lisbon to morrow, at which definite plan of action will be arranged,
The only Lisbon newspapers received in Madrid to day were those smuggled across the According to au uncensored letter just frontier. None of them contained references received via Bedajos; many monarchists who to the unrest, save that made in a speich made hare bitherto uphold King Charles policy by the Premier to delegation which he are now deserting him and joining the Conreceivel on Saturday.
A number of ad Hitional arrests were made in servatives, who demand the abolition of the
Lisbon yesterday, including two prominent diotatorship.
Republican leaders,
The Conservatives are Chus increasing rapidly in power, and a decisive move is imminent."
polsos at Lisbon is surrounded by loyal King Charles is practically a prisoner, bering beek advised sob to go into the city during the present aurest.
A Bomber of wealthy business men are sending their families to Madrid, in anticipation of rioting, and refugees are growing the frontier
A Beater Lisbon telegram, which Las bean sanctioned by the Portugassa Government, states that the raports published abroad, and especially in Spain, have found their way back to Portagal
where they have boon received..
with general surprise."
The examining magistrate who was appointed chief of the spell court authorised to deal sam marily with polition offenders has resigned.
The Marquis de Soveral, the Portugese Minister, stated last night that he had it on the highest authority that the statements ande by the Madrid" Liberal" concerning the exile of the Crown Prince of Portugal are entirely devoid of foundation. He added: "Everybody
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On the 26th at 12.05 am-The barometer bas risen over N.E. Japan, and fallen in W. Japan
do not wish to arouse rain hopes of, say, day daily newspaper have baan, suppressed in Idabou can testify that his Royal Highness
in Lisbon and Oporto for attempting to publish is not leaving the ospital," accounts of the unrest and the progress of the Rspublican movement. Six of these journals are Monarhist and the other four Republican.
The "Oflcial Gazette" contine two
import. ant decrocs dealing with the unrest. The first has prolonged the restrictive measure against the Press, which became operativa last June. The second creates an extraordinary tribunal
The shallow depression appears to be for dealing summarily with revolutionaries.
This tribunal is composed of a judge of the situated over Kores and the W, put of the Lisbon Criminal Court and two associates, and Ees of Japan and to be moving Eastwards, athorised to try, without & jary, any parsons Pressure is highest over the Upper Yangtze,
Moderate to fresh monsoon may be exposted soused of plots against the Government.
Evory foreign telegram leaving
with Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending carefully examined, and those doeling is in the Formoss Channel and the Chius Be political events unfavourable to the Government at 10 am today, 0.08 inches, are suppress-d. Many ordinary commercia! manages, not in cipher, bars beau held up. well, thus onusing serious inconvenience.
Is the matter of standardising, though there are numerous meabanica! development, it is safe to state that the average air only embodies one or two variations on the generally socoptel principles. Taking any car, of any make, now on view and comparing it with the previous season's model, it appears that new departares are fewer, that very little new hun bзan added. Minor details, such as ignition, water circula- tion for cooling, and the like, have undergone very slight modificatius and these only in the direction of simplification. Lubrication, however, har been greatly improved in many пада. The Humber system, in particular, typifies the general advanes towards what is alled the "positive"; the oil is taken up through a filter, and fored by a pump through a series of drots to each sad every part, so that all working parts are regularly and automatically bathed in oil. The principle is not new in itself, of course, but the methods of its application are simplified and made more perfect. Crankshafts are being made hollow, and the six-cylinder proposition is being more generally adopted. Dainilor, however, adheres still to the four cylinders, as do also a few frms of lesser note. The live.azla drive also is superseding the chain which always had the disadvantage of being noisy, Gers have been improved in various ways, notably by the Daimler Company which introduces a worm-drive or spiral gear box which constitates a great advance in the minimising of friction. There are numerous other variations of &
a more or less technical character which all
to show the tendency towards an
bltim ta uniformity in general mechanical principles.
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A Madrid telegram to the "Echo de Paris" states that three hundred arrests have been made at Lisbon in oozergence of the discovery Hongkong & Neighbourhood of bombe, and the prisoners placed on board a orulser, which bas left the port.
The Gil Blas publishes an interview with a Portuguous ex-Minister who arrived in Paris from Lisbon last night. He declared that a cívil war was impending.
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