The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-31
THIS SOUNDS PEACEFUL.
Governor of British Guiana SCOTS
Reports of Serious Trouble Over
the Uruan Incident.

LONDON, Oct. Copyrighted, 1885,
by the Associated Press Sir Charles
Cameron Lees. K. C. NJ G., governor Of
British Guiana. arrived in Plymouth at
midnight having been recalled to Eng
land to confer with Colonial Secretary
Chamberlain on the Venezuelan bound
ary question.
Sir Charles was seen upon his arrival
BY representative of the Associated
Press. who sought. to obtain his views
upon the Venezuelan question. and to
whom he accorded an interview
He said: L regard the frontier out
rage Ghe so-called Uruan incdent) as
purely individual act, as the British
arrested by the Venezuelan officers,
when brought before the higher repre-
SentatiVeS of the Venezuelan government
We're asked by them to return to the
British territory. But they declined, on
the ground that there was no means of
transit back"
The Uruan incident referred to by Sir
Charles was that upon which the re-
ported British ultimatum to Venezuela
was based. a British sergeant of police,
the Barnes above referred to, and two
assistants, crossed the river at Uruan
and planted the British flag on the Vene-
Zuelan side. The
Venezuelan Police Tore Down the
Flag.
drove the intruders across the stream,
and subsequently arrested them. While
on their way to Ciudad Bolivar, with
their prisoners. they were instructed
from Caracas to release the English
men and to permit them to retern 10
British Guiana. The British government
demanded reparation for these arrests.
Sir Charles was asked further to eX-
plain the action of the GuaEa council
in voting it's disapproVal of Colonial Sec
rotary Chamberlain's suggestion for the
purchase of Maxim guns TO be taken to
the Venezuelan frontier. Stt- Charles
said:
with regard to this vote. the matter
was purely an imperial one. There is
only a post consisting of seven men a
Uruan, being merely police station, to
mark the frontier on the SchomDerg
boundary line, and there is practically
no military station there at all, though
the colonial government has repeatedly
asked for a supply of Maxim guns"
Sir Cameron has come home princi-
pally to recruit his health and also some
ceive his attention. He will see Mr..
Chamberlain, secretary of state. for the
colonies, as soon as possible. Going back
to the Uruan incident, Sir Cameron said:
"The. Venezuelan party when they
crossed the river at Uruan, hoisted their
flag upon a building within the Schom-
berg boundary. Sergeants Barnes ami
Baker hauled it down, merely to show
that it was within the British lines, al
though the colonial government would be
delighted to welcome squatters to that
territory if only. to show that it was
British territory"
Venezuela Reasonable.
He was asked if he thought that any
serious affair would occur in the event
of a crisis, to which he replied:
II think not, as there is only a very
frontier. The Venezuelans tried their
utmost to persuade Barnes and Baker to
return to British territory after they had
been arrested
The Associated Press representative
then asked the governor if any difficulty
was likely to arise out Of the concessions
made to American capitalists by Ven
zuela. He said:
mo concessions have been made with
in the British sphere of influence, and
therefore no difficulty is likely to oc-
cur. I have no idea that there will be
any serious resistance to the British de-
mands growing out of the Uruan Incl
dent, as the Venezuelan government
seems DESTROYS of doing everything pos
sible to repair any injury done to British
subjects"