The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-28
PLAIN TALK.
Great Britain's Ultimatum to
little Nicaragua.
She Wants $4,000 and Wants
it Very Soon
ON ACCOUNT OF HATCH
No Back Talk Until This Matter
is Settled.
ON ACCOUNT OF HATCH
Americans Excluded from the
Committee of Adjustment.

WASHINGTON, March 28.-The ultimat-
um issued by Great Britain is given out
here today. 1t is addressed to Senior
Barrios, minister of Nicaragua, and con-
tains among other things, the following
statement:
t'Her majesty's government has care
fully considered the voluminous docu-
ments enclosed in your note of Novem-
bar % last, which you have communi-
Gated to me in justification of the pro-
ceedings of the Nicaraguan government
in regard to Minister Hatch, British pro-
consul, and certain other British subjects
who were arrested in August last in the
Mosquito reservation, imprisoned and ex-
PEELED from Nicaragua, not only without
any form of trial, but without any COM
munication to them of the charges
against them so as to afford them an OPP
portunity of absolving themselves.
before proceeding to the examina-
tions made in those documents, | may
observe that although Minister Hatch
was nor, strictly speaking, an officer in
her majesty's service, it might be expect
ed that the Nicaraguan authorities in
the reserva, who carried on a CORES
pondence with him and made use Of his
services in a consular capacity whenever
and long as it suited their con-
venience to do so, would, as a matter of
courtesy, have communicated with her
majesty's government before resorting to
SO extreme measure as the arrest of
that gentleman"
The document then gives a historical
resume of the situation, practically the
same as a treaty published in English
and American newspapers during the
last six months. The document says:
"With regard to the conduct of Mr..
Hatch, her majesty's government is sat
is1ied from the report of her majesty's
naval officers that it was perfectly cor
rect during the time that he acted as
British pro- consul. Continuing the doc
ument says:
81 do not know that there are any 9TH
er points in the documents which you
have communicated to me of sufficient
! Importance to make it necessary that
should specially notice them. l have
only to request that you will, without
| delay, inform the Nicaraguan govern
ment that her majesty's government can
not admit that any adequate or reliable
evidence has been produced to justify
the arbitrary and violent action taken
against the queens subjects.
"They hold the Nicaraguan govern
ment responsible for those proceedings,
and they must require them to pay the
sum of e15,000 on account of their &C
ton in arresting, imprisoning and ex-
| polling the British subjects; further, to
cancel Internationally the decree of
exile issued against them and to agree to
! the constitution of a commission to as
sess the losses sustained by them in their
property or goods in the reserve owing to
the action of the Nicaraguan authorities
"Such commission to be composed of a
British representative, Nicaraguan rep
resentative, and a jurist, not a
citizen of any American state
| between the Nicaraguan government
and the government of her Majesty, and
| failing such agreement, by the president
| of the Swiss republic. The finding of
the commission 70 be by a majority, and
| the awards to be final, and to be paid
within three months of the conclusion of
their labors.
! "In previous letters which l have adj
dressed to you l have explained that her
majesty's government is not prepared to
! discuss any question with regard to the
! treaty of Managua and the recent pro-
ceedings in the Mosquito reserve until
this matter of the arrest and imprison-
ment of British subjects has been dis :
posed of.
$50 soon as the demands which have
made in my present note be satisfied, l
shall be prepared to receive and consider
| in friendly spirit any representations
! on those questions which the Nicaraguan
government may desire to make to her
majesty's government.
81 am, sir, with highest consideration,
your humble and obedient servant,
"1Signed. KIMBERLY"