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COUNTRYSIDE MIGRATING TO BRAZIL.
A Times correspondent writes:- One of the first things to strike à foreigner in Portugal is the absence of all visible signs of that roligion-which is still professed by the vast majority of the people. No priest or nonk may walk abroad in the distinctive garb of his calling. There areno relig. ious processtuns.
The churches, which were clos ed-after the revolution, aro,/in- |dood. now reopened under. rigorous restrictions; but the schools are completely seculariz. ed, and it is said that atheism is definitely_Inculcated in many of them. The attitude of the Revolutionary Government to- wards the Church is the more ramarkable when we remember that the Church in Portugal has bean liberal rather than reaction- ary, and that its influence during the war was anti-German.
The people acquiesce in the suppression of their religious rights, as they have acquiosced in most of the doings of the Governments that followed the murder of Sidonio Paes-with a sort of despairing indifference that seems to be sapping the national vitality. Many of them are at heart monarchist and: clerical. Many of the mare, moderate supporters of the revolution aro disillusioned. Раев might have saved the situation, but after his murderi politics relapsed into a struggle: of groups, all professing re- |publicanism and anti-clericalism; fall distributing loaves and fishes
to their adherents; all meeting| growing financial difficulties by the simple expedient of expanding the inconvertibla paper currency. To-day none of the country's political leaders seem to awake enthusiasm. Politics are left to the politicians.
but
even
There is, indeed, än active and widespread disgust with the economic condition of the |country,
this, the sirongest political sentiment in Portugal to-day, expresses itself morely in sporadic strikes, the throwing of bombs, which usually miss their aim or fail to explode,} and other feeble attempts at revolution. It is very difficult to estimate the risk of serious social disturbance. Armed guarde have recently been placed on |foreign ships entering the Tagus, and small detachments of in- fantry and cavalry parade the streets of Lisbon on Sundays and holidays, at any rate, when there jis no rain to deter the dissatisfied from beginning, operations; but the newspapers and the Govern- ment declare persistently that everything is, and is likely to remain, perfectly peaceful.
THE NEWLY RICH, Discontent is no doubt largely due to high prices, and aggravat- ed by the wanton display of
| luxury indulged in by those who have grown rich through the war. It is characteristic of present-day Portugal that magnificent motor- cars abound on roads which have
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THURSDAY MARCH 18, 1920.
LIER TELEGRAMS.
BERLIN COUP.
London, March 16, - It is reported that the dramatic breakdown of the Kapp. regime-lias-unquestionably-surprised-and-puzzled-diplomatic circles, although one of the probable ressons is the fact that the coup d'etat has been inopportunely forced to a head at an unpropitious moment. for the revolutionaries by the discovery of their plot and the prime movers decided that the time was not ripe to disclose their hand, for undoubtedly. "Kapp and Lattwitz were mere figureheads. An agreement in the bature of a compromiso is doubtless inevitable owing to the general apathy of the partisans of both sides and the growing fear of civil war. A number of Kapp's torms, how- ever, are included in, the agreement, for apparently Government "exports hienos Government bureaucrats and the election of a President, by plebiscite is interpreted: as favouring the election of a popular military general' or dynast. On the other band a most striking innovation is the; cátablishment inside the Reichstag of a second chamber of an almfost exclusively economic and industrial character wherein Labour will sit side by side with Capital. Meanwhile un- relaxed vigilance and military preparedness is the keynote of Allied policy, as events have emphasised the instability of any regime at present in Germany and the fact that our late enemies have not yet learned the lessons of their dofeat.
THE BRITISH NAVY.
London, March 18. In an explanatory Meniorandum of the Navy çstimates Mr. Water Long shows that, after dedusting nineteen millions of non-recurrent war liabilities and forty millions of recurrent expenditure due to war conditions such as increases of prices,, wages and pensions, there remains a normal expenditure on the basis of pre-war rates and prices totalling £37,500,000, compared with £35,000,000 in 1014-15, The Memorandum says, that in view of the efforts made in war bimo it is possible to temporarily suspend production and reduce the fleet to minimum requirements both in personnel and material. The Memorandum contends that, far from the enpital ship being doomed either on account of submarines or aircraft, the war has shown that the battle squadron must still remain the chief unit of the fleet, though advances in science will inevitably necessitate eventual changes in type. Thus it is even possible that the present battleship may change to a semi-submersible type and even to a flying type, but the immediate abandonment of the capital ship in favour of a visionary scheme of aircraft and submarines would leave the British nation destitute of sen power and without a means of progressive training.
PLAGUE ON THE ALPS MARU.
London, Marely 10,
The Health Ministry announces a caso of plague on the Alps Maru at the Port of London on luth. Feb. followed by. another fatal case last week. Cargo for London has been discharged into lighters and barges under necessary precau.... tions and the ship disinfected as far as possible. The Alps Mara left London on sth. March.
EARLIER SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
SHANGHAI HOTEL PROFITS.
Shanghai, March 17. The Shanghai Hotels Company, owners of the Palace and Astor House, announce that their 1919 profits were $596,437. They are paying a dividend of $2 per share and allotting $300,000 to a new hotel fund.
not been repaired for years, and readjustment that lead to the not them should have been are in parts almost impassable. entirely candid expression of this rejected as recruits. But, after Emigration, especially to Brazil, point of view France is still all the final responsibility is going on apace. Unfortunately, popular in Portugal, and still in these matters must rest with Portuguese Government. the emigrants are largely prosper. stands for Latin culture and the the
dus peasants from the fertile democratic ideals of Liberty, The failure to subject recruits to northern provinces, or else the Fraternity, and Equality in the an adequate medical examination strongest and most enterprising hearts of the Portuguese. The was the natural outcome of the of the urban population. I cynically minded will doubtless prevalent inefficiency, rather? in pathetic to
contrast the point out that the ever-present than of callousness, for the faces and figures of the fear and jealousy of Spain lead Portuguese are a humane nation, stalwart emigrants who crowd naturally to affection for France. too fond, perhaps, of murdering the steerage of outward-bound It is widely believed that Spanish their rulers and other obnoxious English passenger boats at troops would cross the frontier if persons, but seldom doing so in Oporto with those of the anæmic, a serious revolution were to break cold blood. stunted loafers on the quay. By out in Portugal.
The Portuguese currency is a emigration Lo the Latin We English are certainly not monument of governmental in- Americas" agriculture, which beloved by "our oldest Ally."afficiency. Coins worth more than employs three-fifths of the pop-The Portuguese are A proud three farthings. (four centavos)| ulation, is being drained of its life-people, blessed with long mem-have disappeared from circulation blood, and the proportion of idle ories. They still resent our in-and the dollar fescudo! is to-day and inefficient is continually orference with their colonial worth only 20 pence in our own increasing.
administration, and their treat too much depreciated currency.| The inefficiency of those who ment of political and other Notes equivalent to one penny romain in their motherland is prisoners. They have not forgot- and upwards have been issued in indeed the curse of Portugal; but ten our negotiations with Ger- quantities that the Portuguese this is no novelty. The old many concerning the reversion of monetary system is rapidly ap Government did its best to stamp Portuguese Africa. The Monarch-proaching the level of the French out Judaism and Liberalism, and ists consider that we ought to assigant of 1793. Quack remedies failed in both attempts. Where-have saved the monarchy. The are, of course, loudly advocated: ver you find a flourishing in- Republicans accuse us of lack of A law was actually passed to dustry-wine cork, prosperous effective-sympathy with their prohibit the export of money and hotels, Lisbon's splendid tramway democratic ideals, and of stinting securities, but the effects on system-there you also find their supply of coal. Wo are trade • ware BO disastrous Englishmen, Belgions. Amer-yaid to have hustled Portugal that the measure speedily icans, or other foreigners in into the war, and to have brought became inoperative, except| control. The banks were, before pressure to bear to enlist men, in certain comparatively unim the war, largely in the hands of and especially youths, physically portant though vexatious details. German, who are said to be fur incapable of enduring aotive Wages are high in proportion to tively resuming their hold on service. those and other undertaking.
TEUTON NOT POPULAR,
ENGLISH MISSIONS'S ZEAL.
the services rendered: What is wanted is more, and more scientifically directed work but
The Teuton is, however; not It is possible that our Military | exorbitant tariffs, gigan popular in Lisbon, though the Mission showed more seal than ation of agricultue, and statement is frequently made discretion. Certainly a large capital and enter that Portugal was and is pro- proportion of the Portugese troops, needed German: It is probably suspicion in France broke down before
were
of England and a widespread con strikings blow. The victims of viction that: Portugal: will not tub make much out-of-the general
Wand many
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MOPS
Large size in round. shapes.
$2.50 each
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O SEDAR POLISH