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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 3, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 1.

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Not Encouraging

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Not Encouraging.—Brazil in 1890 changed from an empire to a republic without bloodshed. A mutiny or strike in her own navy has cost about 200 or more lives to suppress and the city of Rio Janeiro is declared in a state of siege. A fortress has been demolished and the city shelled. Most of the war-ships have been sent to sea commanded by government officers under sealed orders, and the two great new Dreadnoughts are lying in the harbor with the breech-blocks removed from their guns, and placed at a safe distance under government control. Loyalty seems a scarce article.