Omaha daily bee., 1895-10-20
REGULATION ON THE PROBABLE REPLY
General Opinion Among Diplomats that il
Will Be Negative One.
YIELDING WOULD Be FATAL TO CREspo
Latest Demand Said to Bc Very
similar I'm Terms to One SUBJ
mittcd Some Time Ago by the
British Governments.

LONDON, Oct. 19.-The st. James Gazette
this afternoon follows up its disclosures OF
yesterday regarding the policy Of the Rt
non. Joseph Chamberlain, secretary of state
for the colonies, regarding Venezuela. with
the apparent determination of the British
government to uphold its claim by force of
arms, by making the following statement:
we are In position to state that the
marquis OF Salisbury has sent an ultimaturu
TO President Crespo, which not only sets out
the demands of the British government for
reparation on account of the arrest of the
reputation and inspectors Of police at Uruan,
put 1t also states the terms upon which
Great Britain will definitely determine the
boundary dispute with that republic The
uitimatum Is now enroute to President
Crespo, II it is not already delivered to
him.
This final action was decided upon by the
marquis Of Salisbury and Mr. Chamberlain
before the formers recent holiday in France.
Both the marquis of Salisbury and Mr..
Chamberlain are in perfect agreement as to
the necessity of ending the frontier dispute.
even If Venezuela has to be brought to terms
by methods which are the most effective In
reaching an understanding with South
American republics
THE instructions to station Maxims on
the frontier are to be associated in the dis
patch only in the sense that guns will be
necessary to overawe those Venezuelans WIN
are not likely to pay attention to President
Crespo and the government at Caracas. what
ever agreement the latter may make with
Great Britain after study OF the MARQUIS
of Salisbury's message"
The st. James Gazette also publishes a
letter, signed Hugh Watt. deploring tho
retrograde condition Of British Guiana. due
1t is claimed, to the attempt to bolster up
the decaying sugar cane industry, but pre-
dieting that Mr.. Chamberlain's policy will
revive its industrial prospects.
The Press AZ ion late this afternoon
stated the gov, ent had not announced q
reply to the u natum sent to Venezuela
and that the foreign Office had not even re-
ceved an intimation that 1t had been de-
livered to President Crespo. Probably this
accounts for the fact the foreign office will
only confirm the St. James Gazette story
OF the sending Of the ultimatum to the ex
tent or saying 1t is true that the marquis of
Salisbury is taking steps to inform Venezuela
that reparation is required for the Urouan
outrages.
VENEzuELA'S PROBABLE REPLY.
WASHINGTON, Oct 19-The answer OF
venezuela to the British ultmatum seems
TO be clearly foreshadowed in an official
statement from the Venezuelan minister OF
lorelgh relations. This has been received
III "aShNlgton' 1t states with positveness
the a'titude and policy Of Venezuela upon the
exact subjects covered in the ultimatum and
in Minister Chamberlain's letter to the gov.
ernor Of British Guina. Those official state.
"a fant that ~,
matum is the repetition of demand made by
ureat britain In November last. AS Great
Britain has no minister in Venezuela. rela-
tions between the two countries beina
broken Off, the German minister consented
to act In presenting the British demand
venezuela promptly rejected the demand and
refused to give the assurances Great Britain
asked. The refusal was accompanied bv .
restatement Of all Venezuela claimed.
The circumstances Of the demand and re-
fusal are given as follows in the official state.
ment OF the Venezuelan foreign office re-
ceived here: "In September last the gov.
ernment knew that the high author
tiles OF Demarra, British Guiana
were ready to make protests and
raise questions because some Venezuelan
soldiers had crossed the river Cuyuni near
the place where the so-called English station
was located and had felled timber on the
right bank of the river. Information has
been received here that this movement beean
by some threats of the colonial agents IN
arrest certain Venezuelan citizen who had
resided at that point for a long time. II was
also known that the band OF Venezuelan
soldiers had crossed the river only for the
purpose of celebrating the national festivitv
OF July 3, In the house of some of their
friends residing in that territory. British
colonial agents who have exercised their
authority since the day in which the povern-
ment Of Dematara wrongfully decided IN
occupy that part of the Venezuelan territory
were allowed to continue in their place with
out being molested by the forces of yens.
Zuela.
Such was the state Of affairs when I'm
the early part Of last November the German
legation, which was in charge OF the protection
OF British interests In Venezuela, received n
telegram from Berlin, in which, in the name
OF the British cabinet mention was made OF
supposed violation Of the colonial frontier
and assurances were urgently demanded that
In the future no Venezuelan soldiers should
be allowed to cross the stream on that side
and go to the right bank Of the Cuyunl river,
"A declaration of this kind by Venezuela
would have been equivalent to an implied
recognition of the alleged rights OF Great
Britain TO the possession Of that territory and
would have also implied the withdrawal of
the several protests made by Venezuela ever
since 1887 against any infringement or
abridgement Of her territory Under these
circumstances no hesitation was possible,
and the answer given by the department Of
foreign relations, far from giving the sssur-
anoes demanded by the British cabinet, served
only to make repetition of all that the re-
public OF Venezuela had said against the
claims of Great Britain, although stating at
the same time the desire OF the government
10 avoid new difficulties through Just and
fair settlement Of the question"
THE -LH.-ll abatement from the Xenezuslsa