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Machine guns crackled last week in the tortuously inclined streets of Lisbon. The city, built like Imperial Rome on seven hills, was weathering the 18th Portuguese revolution since 1910.† Last week the struggle between the two factions of the military adventurers who now dominate Portugal became so furious that the U. S. Legation was hit by stray machine-gun fire, and U. S. Minister Fred Morris Dearing hastily decamped to the suburbs...
...fighting began when President-Dictator Prageso Carmona of Portugal left Lisbon at the head of 1,000 picked troops to put down a mutiny and insurrection at Oporto, famed port city of the region producing "Port Wine...
With Big Militarist Carmona away, the little militarists began to play with guns. For 56 hours these insurgents** at Lisbon skirmished with the Government troops, and at one time seized the Ministry of War. Then, their leader, Colonel Mendes Reis, was sniped, and the insurrection became disorganized...
When Dictator Carmona returned to Lisbon, after putting down the mutiny at Oporto, he arrived in an armored car, and well supported by airplanes and troops, which enabled him to resume with bomb and shot his despot's grip upon the capital...
Jutting out in the Atlantic about a third of the way from Lisbon to Philadelphia, are the Azores Islands. Chief of them is Fayal, where the little stone houses of Horta-toy houses of pure pink, blue, yellow and white-rim the smooth-curved harbor. . . . One day last week the volcanic crust of the earth subsided under Fayal. Some 1,500 of the little stone houses of Horta trembled, crumbled, fell down. A tidal wave washed in to paw their ruins...