Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-09-12
WALKER OFF
 FOR VENEZUELA
Sent There to Check the Az gressiveness of Great
 Britain.
CALLS OF THE SOUTH AMERICAN
 REPUBLIC FOR AID.

The Admiral Directed to Pursue a Vigor-
 Ous Policy in Dealing With the situa-
 tion--His Three Vessels to Confront
 Three English Ones--The Most Import
 ant Mission That Has Been Entrusted to
 an American Naval Officer for Years.
 WASHINGTON, Sep. 12.-There are good reasons for believing that the sealed in structions which were yesterday delivered to Admiral Walker on board the Chicago entrusted him with a mission more inn portant, perhaps, than any that has been confided to an American naval officer in recent years.
 The protracted conference which Presi- dent Harrison held with Acting Secreu- tary of State Adee on his recent visit to Washington; the long consultation be- tween Secretary of the Navy Tracy and Mir. Adee before Admiral Walkers in- structions were finally agreed upon; the carefully worded official statement given out through these dispatches that Admi ral Walker ''was directed to pursue a vigorous course in deal ing with the situa tion, especially in connection with foreign aggression" all take on new significance when the fact is stated that Admiral Walkers mission to La Guayra with his squadron will be to proffer the friendly intervention of the United States to the Venezuelan authori- ties, whoever they may be by the time he arrives out there, for the purpose of pre- venting the final absorption of Venezue- Ian territory by Great Britain and fur ther to secure the restoration of the status quo as to boundaries as it existed prior to 1877, and to obtain consent for the submission to arbitration of the question of title to the territory in dis pute between the two governments.
 The keynote of the whole expedition is to be found in the following extract from 8 dispatch addressed to Mir. Blaine before his resignation of the State Department
 portfolio, by MT. Peraza, the Venezuela
 Minister at Washington.
 ''The Hon. MT. Blaine is already aware
 that agents of the government of Great
 Britain have taken possession, unduly
 and forcibly, of the port of Barima at
 the mouth of the Orinoco, which up to
 that time had been possessed by Venezue-
 Ia, whose title to it was indisputable. It
 is only necessary to cast 8 glance at the map of South America in order to see the
 vast importance of this aggressive step of Great Britain. When European mari time power has once obtained foothold at Barima, it absolutely controls the Ori- noco river and its numerous afiuents Through that artery it may penetrate as far as the Rio de La Plata. This is not 8 danger which threatens Venezuela alone; it threatens all Ameria, and is more seri-
 ous than the possession of the Panama canal by European power.
 Mir. Peraza, on behalf of the Venezue- Ian Government, earnestly and almost pathetically begged the United States Government to intervene to prevent the republic from final disruption and to se- cure the submission to arbitration of the l question in dispute with Great Britain. Of course the Venezuelan Government l is not prepared to resist these bold en- | croachments, otherwise they would l hardly be attempted. The government
 here has been endeavoring for more than | six months past to re-establish diplomat | 1886, and have the question of boundary | referred to arbitration. but without the | slightest prospect of success.
 It may be that with a powerful United | States squadron in the harbor of La l Guayra, under the command of an ad- miral especially instructed to aid and assist to the full extent of his power, ! Venezuela may be able to renew. the overtures for arbitration to better pur- pose. Honors will at least be easy so far
 as the display of physical force IS con- | cerned.
 | Immediately after the consummation | of the seizure of Barima the British authorities ordered three war steamers ol l their Barbadoes squadron, the Bellero- | phon, the Emerald, and the Partridge. tc | rendezvous in Demerara waters for the
 supposed purpose of intimidating Vene-
 zuela and securing acquiesence in tho l seizure.
 | Admiral Walkers three cruisers, tn,
 Chicago, the Concord, and the Kearsarge
 will very neatly offset the British squad l ron and will just little out-class them