The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-10-16
NO SOLDIERS LANDED
BRITISH TROOPS NOT MARCHING
across BRAZIL TO VENEZUELA.
No Aggressive steps Yet Taken I'm the
Territorial Dispute Americans
Net In Need Of Assistance.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.-The New Ye.x
Herald this morning printed the following
dispatch from Buenos Ayres: "a telegram
from Para, Brazil, has been received in
Rio de Janeiro stating that an armed Brit
ish force is marching through Brazilian ter
ritory. The objective point of the body Is
that part OF Venezuela claimed by the Brit
ish government. The column has already
crossed the Tacutu river"
The above report is discredited by Sir
Julian Pauncefote, the British ambassador;
Senior Mendonca. the Brazilian minister,
and by Senior Andrade. the Venezuelan min
lister. the representatives OF the three coun-
tries concerned. II is agreed by these off,
Gals that a move OF such supreme impor-
tance would be quickly communicated here,
and In the absence OF any such reports no
credit is attached to it, Sir Julian Paunce-
fote. accompanied by the Earl Of West
meath. arrived here at IL o'clock to-day, aft
er an extended tour through Canada. He was
seen shortly after his arrival and asked
concerning the reported landing of British
troops in Brazil, en- route to Venezuela.
He attached no importance to the report,
and said he regarded it as another canard
as to the seriousness of South American
complications The ambassador had received
no advices on the subject. 1t was clear to
him.. however. that no such move would be
made, certainly not by way OF the territory
CT an outside power. Sir Julian will give
his first attention to the coming conven-
tion to assemble here to reach an agree
ment as to the amount of damages to be
awarded to the Canadian sealers whose YES
sells were seized in Boring sea prior TO the
Paris award. The status OF the much de-
bated Venezuela and Nicaragua questions
remain unchanged 50 far as the British Of
fcials are informedy.
Minister Andrade. ofsvenezuela. said that
the report of British forces. landing in
Brazil was self-evidently false, as it was
out OF the question for troops TO march the
great distance from the Brazilian coast to
Venezuela. If any such landing was at
tempted 1T could be made more easily in
British Guiana, which is situated much
nearer the disputed territory. The minister
has received no word from his government,
indicating that there Is no alarm in Vene-
zuela. Minister Mend0nca. OF Brazil, said
the report that British soldiers were cross
ing Brazil was manifestly vague, tnasmuch
as Brazil was about the size Of the United
States. and IL was like a report that troops
were crossing America"
At the State Department the report finds
no credence. The entire colonial army of
British Guiana numbers two hundred
militia, a force too small 10 be effective in
= conflict with Venezuela and. besides, the
~ AtAcn dlC W z Iliicu a " lie
rights of other nations to needlessly make
an issue with a friendly nation like Brazil
by violating her territory. Again, the
particular corner of Brazil that such a
force would be obliged to traverse is an
impenetrable jungle and the route would
land il far back in the interior remote from
the tract involved in the boundary dis
pute. 1t is recalled that a similar report
was put afloat a few weeks ago, only the
scene in that case was on the boundary of
French Guiana and the armed forces were
represented TO have been landed from a
French war ship. AS a fact. il was found
later that the party seen was made uD of a
few gold miners seeking new mining
grounds and 1t is presumed that in the
present case the expedition reported is
nothing more than another mining party
going into the interior.
A dispatch from London says the British
Foreign Office representatives assert there
Is no truth I'm the New York Herald's dis
patch. and that there would be no object
IN marching through that portion of Brazil
even If a British force had been available
FOR the purpose outlined.