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Strategy of the Madeira revolt as planned by exiles and opponents of the five-year Portuguese dictatorship of General Antonio Oscar de Fragosa Carmona, was that Madeira should rebel first. When troops and ships were withdrawn from Lisbon to suppress this island uprising, Lisbon too would rise up in revolt. But the Lisbon revolt fizzled last week. A sabre charge and the rattle of machine guns quieted the revolutionists...
...Again. From Lisbon last week the Dornier flying liner DO-X resumed its transatlantic passage begun three months ago at Lake Constance, Switzerland. The wing destroyed by fire at Lisbon had been rebuilt (TIME, Dec. S). Some of the fine interior fixings had been pulled out to make way for more fuel. The proposed course direct to the U. S. had been abandoned for a route via Rio de Janeiro. And Lieut. Clarence H. ("Dutch") Schildhauer, former U. S. Navy flyer, had returned from the U. S. to his post as copilot. The DO-X carried a crew...
After three weeks of faltering, unimpressive flight from Switzerland, the great Dornier flying boat DO-X (TIME, Nov. 17) finally rode at anchor in Lisbon Harbor last week. There she was fuelled for another short hop to Cadiz while Dornier officials fussed and worried about her ability to fly to the U. S. this winter. Less than an hour after the fuel tanks were filled, fire broke out in the auxiliary engine room, jumped to the left wing, exploded the gasoline in the wing tank before the five men aboard knew what had happened. The four crewmen, led by Pilot...
...Lisbon papers rumored last week that what had roused President Carmona (himself addicted to fountain pens) to have the inkstand made was the wedding of Princess Marie Jose of Belgium (TIME, Jan. 13). Finding it necessary to order a candelabra for H. R. H., he went the whole hog, ordered the Peace Palace's inkstand too, plus a tray for it to stand on, plus two goose quill pens...
...still a bachelor in spite of many reported engagements, he has retained yachting as his major hobby. As a boy of 12 he had spent his vacations knocking around the Ida Lewis lighthouse. In 1913 he sailed his yacht Vagrant from Portsmouth, Maine to Lisbon, Portugal in 23 days and won the King's Cup. He was Commodore of the New York Yacht Club for three years and served on a submarine chaser during the War. At all his amusements he works hard. He went into training last spring to be in shape to sail Enterprise. He smokes...