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ARGE OFFICE ROOM n First Floor

LARGE OF DER FOUX ROAD.

FERD. BORNEMANN, No. 16, Das Vaux Road Centra

164 Hangkong, 23rd January, 1908.

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS," THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20TH, 1908.

SECESTART, A. S. Watson & Co. Limited. Hongkong, 23rd April, 1907.

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THE PORTUGUESE DICTATORSHIP. | impartial observers defend his soțion and quote

(Furniture qan be Purchased' if desired), 6 big FFICES on Top Floor No. 2, Connaught./compromise, and if few of us have experienced ith the result that one journal after anothor

Road, facing the Cricket Ground:

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FAIRVIEW, No. 1, Robinson Road,

Rooms, nice view of harbour.

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17.0.2, CHANCELY LANES ROOMED

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"STILLINGFLETE" Peak Road, SIX- BOOMED HOUSE with Fine View of Harbour.

CHARPERVILLE" Garden Road, SIX- ROOMED HOUSE fitted with Electric Light and full use of Tennis Court.

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No. 10, DEB VG JI ROAD CENTRAL

"HATHERLEIGH," Conduit Road,

Road

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iwe dislike the very name and ro

the maxim, "sins reipublice sprema lor," and BFFICIENT ADMINISTRATION. I in any case little sympathy osa be left for his advarsàries, who attack the Promier for having Mr. Henry Byron writes. In the Times with greater exausosiopted one of their favourite Those who would understand the situation in roethods, for Dictatorships are traditional in Portugal must bear in mind that the self-game Portugal. Though they dare not proclaim words have different meanings in different it openly, probably their real grievance countries and varying conditions, We have against him consists in bis eweeping aboli prospered under oar Constitution, and there- tion of sinesures of all kinds, which has made fore respect it. Parliamentary Government, if them and their friends the paorar. Similarly not the ideal rule

our forefathers esteemed hie

ity

suspension of the extravagant payments to has proved a satisfactory solution in a world of newspapers has suited the Press in a campaign. of calumny against King and Government, has bad to be mozzled in the interests. of publie docenes and public order. Little more weight need be attached to the opposition to Senhor politicians belonging to the Council of State, Franco's reforming zoni shawn by the militant nor yet to the protesis of certain municipalities whose members naturally spoke as their party leaders inspired them. These and other mani festations, though formidable enough to the English reader, were soon to be part of the play and were promptly discounted by the spectators who wasleted at i B performance.

The

country as a whole looked out the discomfiture of the "' rotative" politicians and

| Taughed, for it know thom f old and had pased to believe in their good faith or even to take them seriously.

$GGESFORD (Furnished) No. 114, Lave returned from

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GLENWOOD" CAINE ROAD, suitable for a Boarding hous or Club. Containing 25

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its existence as incompatible with freedom, when we read that the Portagnes Constitution Las been violated once more, that A HOUSE in CON GARDENS, Condalt that she is now being ruled, in part at least by her Parliament has been illegally dissolved, and Royal decrees issued at the fnitance of the Cabinet, which has constituted itself a Dicator ship, we are chooked and, perhaps, even alarmed for the future of our faithful ally, who has best useful to us in the past and may serve our policy again. Moreover, we have read in the news papers of the mutiny of troops, of booths pre pared for exalted persona es, of editions speeches, and of plang for a Republican rielug, and those of us who are knowing quote history to show how these things wally end. It is tra that correspondents by the doza, despaced by

Meanwhile Senhor Frazer paraned his way the principal journals of Europe and Ameriou, boldly for beds erginently a strong man, one who

Lisbon

knows what he wished to do and does it. H with

prastically the

settled the same tale, reporting that the country is

question of the tobacoa monopoly that trace goes on as usual, and that excitement he went far towards solving the dimoult wine and in the possession of all reasonable liberties, which had eansed the fall of two Ministries, and Irritation are almost confined to the class of question to the satisfaction of the Douro, and politicians and journalists. It is teus also, and he stood firm for authority in the University very significant, that, after interviewing the outbreak, but when tas students returned ho various political leaders and collecting informet abɔat to change the system, which had Lion from sundry sources, thes serrespon/louts. given ground for their revolt He is re nuito i condemning the past muadininistra, sponsible for the Crown Prino's successfal tion of the two bieteric parties in the State

tour of the Africas louies, sad he has the Regeneradores and Progressistas, while arranged for the visit of King Carlos to torship, which has silenced their confreres most of them speak well of this terrible Duts Brazilia 1908. His greatest success, however, liss boon in matter of ficanoo, where he has and agree with the general opinion of their evolvet order out of chaos. After strengthering compatriots resident in Lisbon, that Portugal the law of Ministerial responsibility he ment for generations. Still, the situation is pounds a year in a national expenditure of some has not seen so serious and upright a Govern effected economies amounting to over a million.

the failure of Parliamentary institutions has mates, abolishing the bid eld system of app's undoubtedly abnormal, and if, as is alleged, thirteen millions, be kept well with the eati

torship, some explanation wast be sought in the that if he remains in office another year the led to the present crisis and justifies the Diamentary credit, and there is every probability peat bistry of the country,

Budget will show a surplus, a result hitherto deemed impossible. In addition to the constant support of the King and of a small section of the upper class he has earned the goodwill of the marozatile and shopkeeping community by his business methods, and the workers appreciate Portuguese Psidents in Rio de Janeiro have. their day rest. while only recently 30,000 aired a memorial thankfully recognising bis efforts to regenerate a fatherland which they love all the more because they are exiles in a foreign land.

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GOOD CENTRAL GODOWN, No, 38, DUDDELL STREET -- LADBROKË; No 1, CONDUIT Road, e Rooms, Faraished or Unfurnished from 15th April, 198 Large Sarrants' Quarters and full sized Tennis Court.

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JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD. Hongkong, 21st October, 1907.

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HOUSE in KNUTSFORD TERRAUE

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For a brief period in the Sixteenth Century Portugal was a world Power, but her Fastora adventure, walls it brought hemdying fams drained her energy and altimately led to the loss of her free institutions. The pillage of Asia, mada possible by the discoveries and conqueste, occupied the Poringasse and took them for from bome at a time when there, as alsewhere, national liberties were falling oue by one before Monarchsistent on identifying the State with themselves: The Cortos were summoned more and more rarely, until at last they cased to meet at all, and the nation, fell s victim to the most complete ecclesiasticnt and political despotism, and so remained for more than two centuries. Hy his measuras against the old rability Pombal increased the already ARGE 6-ROOMER HOUSE a best everwhelming power of the Crown, and

locality, facing the Band,

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class if he allowed it no political intenence, Gorm in Post Oflec, Canton,

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ignorant to be cangoious that they had rights as well as duties. They were eren stiched to the old régime, for the tradition of self-government and weary Civil War, the Liberals triumphed, had heen lost, and when in 1834, after a long and the last absolute King was deposed, the exhausted nation accepted constitutional govern- ment because it had been imposed by fore Fortugal was d livered from Dom Miguel by the aid of foreignere and against her will. At this moment a fatal mistake was made. Pa liamentary institutione copied from France ware bestowed on a nation nufitted by tempora- ment and lack of instruction to work them, and no serious effort has been made to educate.

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Care of "Daily Press" Offer. Hongkong, 23 January, 1948,

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TO. 59, CAINE ROAD.

311

Nos. 27 and 31, SEYMOUR ROAD.

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THE Top Floor of No. 2, Wyndham Street Iately vaosted by the. Hotel' Baltimore, suitable for a Club er Boarding House,

No 7, PEDDER'S HILL

First Floor of No. 6, Qump's Road, Central, comprising Six Large Rosmas and Outhouses suitable for business Pro mides or Dwellings. now ocupied by FRD, BORNEMANN & CO.

Second Floor of Na. SA, DES, VEUX ROAD CENTRALabore the Offie of DAVID. Bassoon & Co LTD.

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TAICES (4-ROOMS of the let and 2nd 10, DES VEUX BOAD CENTRAL, (formerly occupied by Messrs..

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Nos. 2 and 4,FAIRVIEW ROBINDOR

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electors to understand and value the gift.

The population is more rural then urban' and even now about 50 per cent can neither read nor write, not that the any woran man for that; but it unfita them for the franch ise and rapiers them ao ay prey to bose and stamp orator. In his masterly boo

Portugal Contemporanen" the historian Oliveira Martius has told the story of constitu. tional rule in Poringal during its first half cantary of existence, and the record is decidedly unadifying and disheartening. On the political side it is one of ■poliating, of the vanquished, internecins strife, conflicts with the pals varied by military pronunciamentos and foreig" intervention, white Ministry Succesde Ministry with kaleidoscopie rapidity, and principles seem enbordinated. to perennel jealoaner, and patriotism to the ingt for power and gain. On the economie side Josu after loan has pled ap a national debt which is one of the biggest in Europa per head, white hardly any other country isso variously and heavily taxed-

Perhaps few nations would have done balfer if suddenly rescued from absolutism and traos formed into a democracy, ed it must in fair

I have known my Portugal for many years. and withpat approving all its masures or astheds I believe the dictatorship was necessary, and that it as already proved a blessing. The effects of put miegorernent will remain, for they cannot be cared in a few meaths or even years. Sarto Frame as ented public opinion, hitherto, nou existent, and set up a standard which no fature Government will be allow to depart from and this, think, gives him no weak title to his country's. gratitude.

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Mrs. Vanderbilt resolved that the wedding should be a strictly private aff sit, bring sotuated in so doing chief by memoria of the painful seres which attended the weddings at St. Thomas's Church and Grace Church of the Duke of Marlborg sad the Earl of Craven,

prenuptial paragraph asid:

Almedy Count Szechenyi is showing himself irritated beyond measure or the impertinent attentions of newspaper representatives. Two days ago for the second timings bisbatrothal he sesamited a photographer who suspshotted him as he left the mansion of bia futurs mother, -in-law.

is the reverse of popular, a fact which doubtless accounts for the reports published to day that The match, greats is the interest it oxoites,

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ANARCHISTS PLOT.

CONSPIRACY TO DESTROY V. B. A. WARSHIPS, The following telegram has been received at New York, January 19th, from Rio de Faneiro:

poples, and that all the apparatus of modern capital will be held in trust. Count Szechenyi civiliantion had to be introduced. Furthermore, himself and his brothers deny indignantly that owing to the asstiled political conditions au cosion exists for a marriage settlement, credit stord low for long period and loans and declare that the merringo is a love were necessarily raised at usories rates the capital of which is still a burden, while though institutions had changed bribery and nepotiem ourished as before because the man were the same, and politics were found be a reminera- tive trade and ponasquantly absorbed a large proportion of the educated classes. The "ins and the "outs" arranged matters amicably between them, and the Gorerament in power almost invariably won the General Election, The Deputies did not represent their con stituents, often they had ever seen them, and fine speaking proved the surest road to oftion, So-well were these facts recognised that except in Lisbon and Oporto, where the Republicans (ie, persons discontented with the methods of administration, but not necessarily desirous of seeing & Republic) showed activity, only amicurity took the trouble to rete, kaow ing the result to be usually a faragone con Such were some of the auditions when the prest. Prime Minister, an honest, a rich, and therefore an independent man, came into power. Reform beg been in the air for years, and several honest and capable men had tried to cleanse the House, bat one and all had failed in face of the united opposition of the vast majority An official note published here says that interested in preserving the régime of abuses. Senhor Franco's programme briefly was one of respect for the Constitution, of eficient adminis. tration, and, above all, of economy, because the flaancial question is, and must be for some time the meat important in a country like Portugal. He made a big effort to keep the first of his pledges, and lived with Parliament for six

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