The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1895-12-24

Spanish nation. After protracted strug-
gle Venezuela assumed her independence
from the mother country, and Spain recog-
signed by the two countries II arch 80, s45.
England and the Netherla nds tHolland
after a bloody war signed in London Au.
gust l 3. s74, treaty of peace, by virtue
OF which England gave back to Holland
all the colonies which she had taken from
her, except the Cape GoodHope, EsseQuibO
Berbice and Demarari. Thus England is
Hollands eessionary, but neither can the
heir have more or less than the originator
had nor the Customary more or less as a
customary than the donor had.
THE CLAIM OF SPAIN.
LAS to the right of Spain. BY the Ven
czuelan shores Alonzo de Ojeda began the
discovery and conquest of Venezuelan ter
ritory; this territory is that which was
lie ruled yhim. Spain was primo ocupante:
all the nations recognized it. But Spain.
on account of war then existing in all Eu-
rope, had enemies, and as the fame OF the
richness of these regions extended, there
were many trespa ssers, which finally
brought about a war to repel the invaders
But when the war came to an end, and
things to new order, which territories
Guiana-the Dutch. On the Spanish side
only up to the Essequibo River.
THAT is what Venezuela contends and
claims to be able to prove, without taking
Into account that even from the EsseQuibO
the Dutch were repulsed by the Spaniards
in 1895, or that in 1865 tue former were
second town OF St. Thomas. II the deed of
property is not the title justifytng, then
no title is valid. Either England has deed
of property over a portion OF Guiana or
she there? She has such a deed, viz: The
treaty OF August Is, 1914, made at Lon
don, by which the Netherlands coded to
her their colonies of Good Hope, EsseQuibO.
Berbice and Demarari Nothing issa Id there
about Morocco, OriDoco, Mau yanares or
Guaire, but only about the EssequibO. II
tory at the Essequibo, on which ground does
she claim right TO 60 further.
1t must be said that even If the Dutch
had had right to any other part Of the
country OIL this side Of the Essequibo IL
would not be England's, because they ceded
only the EssequlDO colonies, and only these
We're accepted and received by England UNI
der her seal affixed to the said London
treaty.
.Op this assumption 1t would be with
the Dutch with whom we would have to
contend. The Dutch did not go beyond the
Essequibo, because they had nothing more
to give, because there commenced the Span
ish domain, and this was in 1914.
This was universal knowledge. Coro-
graphs, historians, geographers, all knew
1t, and it was SO published on charts, chrOn-
icles and treaties in England, France and
Spain.
SOME AUTHORITIES QUOTED.
LA Contiamine was aware of that when
he wrote: SThe Dutch Guiana begins at
the Marawine River and ends at the Esse-
quibo: and to the Spanish Guiana is left
the country between the EssequfbO. where
-. W.. Norie. English gcographer, knew
it when, in his Sailing Directions for the
Guiana Shores published in 1928 In Lon-
don, he wrote: British Guiana extands
herself from the River C0uranie to the
north west to the EsseQuibO,' and he adds: :
This was the real extension of the colony
as arranged between Dutch aud Spaniarls