The Yale expositor., 1895-10-25
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
VARIETY OF NEWS ITEMS FROM
VARIOUS PLACES.
Great Britain Is Trying to Crowd Little
Venezuela, but the Little Republic
Stands Her Ground-Uncle Sam VIII
See that There Is Fair Play.

Quite the most interesting as we'll as
sensational phase of the Venezuelan
boundary dispute with Great Britain
has been developed by the ultimatum
which the British government is said
to have sent TO Venezuela, growing
out of the arrest last year of Sergt.
Behren's and two assistants of the
British police force by the Venezuelan
authorities ut Uruan. I he st. James
Gazette of London, has published
statements to the effect that Hon. Jos.
Chamberlain, British secretary of state,
had cabled instructions to Sir Chas.
Cameron Lees, governor of British
Guiana, TO provide Maxim guns to con-
troll the Venezuelan border to prevent
the crossing of soldiers. Also urging
the cutting of military road through
the disputed territory between British
Guiana and Venezuela, as we'll as in
creasing the military force and erect
ing barracks on the frontier. The
ultimatum which Great Britain has
sent To Venezuela is to the effect that
reparation must be made for the
arrest of the police inspectors at
Uruan, and that no more Venezuela
sellers cross the border of the disputed
territory. If this is not done the
threat is made that force will be used.
The answer of little Venezula makes
is rejection of the demands and n
re-statement of her claims. The Brit
ish protest was made against soldiers
crossing the border on the fact that
some Venezuelan soldiers had crossed
the River Cuyuni near the British
station. They did not interfere with
the British and merely went TO cele-
brate the national holiday with some
friends. The British insisted that
Venezuela should give assurances that
no more soldiers should cross. The
Venezuelan government could not ac-
cede, however, because such an assur-
ance would been a tacit admission of
the British claims on the territory.
Hence the refusal The official state
ment from the Venezuelan foreign
office covers also the policy of Vene
zuela in case the British attempt TO
build the military road recommended
by British Minister Chamberlain. The
Venezuelan statement closes with the
significant sentence that on the ques
ton of building this road, the course
of Venezuela has been such that the
Invading neighbors' cannot make
another step further on the Venezuela
side of the line without at once pro-
volSing u collision" The government
of Venezuela is providing itself with
modern armament and among other
supplies has ordered 10 improved
Maxim guns. At the same time the
syndicate of United States capitalists
which has secured concessions on the
Venezuelan gold lands claimed by
Great Britain is preparing to send Il
large force of prospectors, miners and
workmen into the field and should
trouble occur there is no doubt that
the United States should protect the
American interests. Indeed it is ex-
pected that the United States will see
to it that Great Britain does not intim-
idate Venezuela, and it is n fact n
large number of the u. 5. warships
are now in the immediate vicinity of
the probable scene of trouble to be
ready to enforce the Monre doctrine.