The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-17

British commanders and whether they in
clude the landing of troops is not stated.
NO PROTEST FROM GRESHAM.
The Secretary Has Taken No Steps to
Enforce the Monroe Doctrine.
WASHINGTON April 16.-It is impossi-
bic to secure from the State Department
anything like an explanation of the atti-
tude it has assumed toward the dispute
between Great Britain and Nicaragua be-
yond the declaration that the map of Mic
aragua will not be changed by any action
on the part of Great Britain. This means,
of course that Great Britain will not be
permitted to acquire any of the territory
of Nicaragua, even under color of the old
protectorate over the Mosquito reservation
which originally extended southwark to the
San Juan river and so commanded the
eastern approach to the proposed Nicaragua
canal, to the construction of which the
United States now stands committed by
the action of the last Congress. The an
nouncement made in London that Great
Britain had declared the Nicaraguan
response to her ultimatum to be in
sufficient was fully expected at the
State Department. Mr.. Bayard. our
ambassador at London, has been using his
good offices to bring about a peaceable set
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Secretary Gresham has been counselng
the Nicaraguan minister, DR.. Guzman,
probably to make such concessions as may
be consistent with Nicaragua's national
honor. AT the same time it is known that
the Secretary has entertained doubt of
the .soundness of the British contention of
right to claim reparation for the ex-
pulslon or its consular agent if he has
really been guilty of fomenting rebellion
during the. Blueields disturbances last
year, and this he has probably commune
Gated to the British government as a rea-
son why 1t should not be overhasty and
dictatorial in the treatment of small and
uefenseiesS nation. 1t is not believed that
the State Department has gone so far as
to serve formal notice on Great Britain
Though earnest peace representations have
been made) that she must not lombard
Greytown, for that, it is said, would be
equivalent to a declaration that no Euro
pean power may hereafter wage war on
any of the American republics, even in a
cause involving, as is claimed in this case,
national honor. and it is quite certain that
every one of the powers would repudate
such suggestion. But in the present in
PROBABILITY that Great Britain neT Would pro
coed to such extreme course as a bonn
bardment of town in which the largest
interests We're owned by foreigners with
whose nations she had no quarrel, and it
is much more likely that even If Nicaragua
should finally refuse to meet the conditions
of the ultimatum, the British would try to
collect indemnity from the Nicaraguan
Sir Julian Pauncefote the British en-
bassador, has not received any definite adj
vices concerning the latest Nicaraguan de-
sVeiopments. Sir Julian has not been kept
advised of the negotiations, but such a de-
cisive move as the one reported, indirectly
involving the United States, undoubtedly
would be communicated to him. There are
two views taken by diplomates of the stat
us of affairs. One is that Great Britain's
uitlmatum was one submitted for accept
ance or rejection. Nicaragua's answer pro-
poses other terms, and is indirectly a
lection of the British terms. If Great Brit
ain considers this an evasion she will pro-
coed to enforce the ultimatum, which ex-
PRED to-day, The other view is that Great
u1til the Foreign Office had taken the
usual diplomatic course of rejecting Mic
aragua's counter proposition, in which case
it would still be subject for diplomacy
and not force.
A well-posted diplomatic authority, ex-
planning matters from a British standpoint
indicated that show of force might be
made, but that war would not happen
Some of the commercial vessels of the
offending country might be seized or it's
commerce crippled until the terms of the
adopted. if events reached the acute stage.
would be to send war ship to Nicaragua
as the United States did recently in the
der Captain Davis, proceeded to Honduras
and naval. instead of diplomatic. represen-
country acceded to the demands of the
United States for the settlement of the
Renton case and the payment of an indem-
nifty.
1t was learned this evening that the State
Department had made no protest" against
any proposed British action in Nicaragua,
for the very good reason that the British
government has regarded the issue be tween
itself and Nicaragua as one in which no
other nation can have any concern and
has not acquainted the government of the
United States with its exact purposes No
vessel of the United States is now at Grey
town. but the six vessels comprising the
squadron of Admiral Meade are now at
is said at the Navy Department that the
fact that the six vessels now within
reach reach OF the Mosquito coast is due to ac-
has been informed that Admiral Meade ex-
poets to reach Key West on the o6th of
this month. and as he is now only five
days sail from that point he can remain
five days in the vicinity of Greytown and
still carry out the itinerary agreed on
There are no orders compelling him to be at
Key West on the date named, although it
was a part of the, general plan approved
by the department before the squadron left
on the cruise. 1t is probable that the At
lanta and Raleigh will remain where they
Admiral Meade with the other four vessels
depart. The Monterey arrived at Mazat-
ward
On April the Associated Press made the
statement. on the authority of high Off
cial in the British diplomatic service: TT
is authoritat;veiy known that the British
Minister of Foreign Affairs, within the
Bayard that Great Britain does not de-
sire an inch OF Nicaraguan territory; that
ficiently large to satisfy her ambition, and
that all she desires of Nicaragua is that
a proper indemnity shall be paid to the
British Proconsul Hatch and other of her
Majcstvs subjects who We're driven out of
Bluefelds during the troubles in the Mos
quito reservation last summer. Assurances
have eiso been given that While Great Brit
ain viii show an earnest determination
coilect ta,s , .s, tnere Is mttie any
harded by n British fleet in the event that
Nicarseua shall be slow in complying with
Great Britain's request"
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