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Great Britafn's Demand of Nicaragua
for Expellimg Consul Hatch.

Great Rrft,fn,x Demand of Nicaragua
for ExpslliM Consul Hatch.
The British government, through. Its min
lister at Manaeua, has submitted an ulti-
nahum to Nicaragua. 1t demands cash
indemnity of $4,000 as smart money to pay
for the expulsion of Mr.. Hatch, British con-
sular agent at Bluefelds, during the trou-
bles there last year, and also the appoint
ment of n commissioner to adjudicate the
damages sustained by the persons ana
property of British subjects who were eX-
PEELED from the Mosquito reservation ABOUT
the same time.
By the terms of the ulttmatum Great
Britain is to name one Of the COMMISSION
ers and, Nicaragua another, and these TWO
are to choose a third, who shall not pc
citizen of the United States. 1t was also
made known that a British waEship. Is now
on her way to Nicaragua to enforce these
demands, which must be computed Win
within seven weeks from the Zotn Oh rep
ruary last. the date of the ultimatum
Gen. Barrios who was appointed a spe-
cial ambassador by the Nicaraguan gov
eminent to endeavor to settler It's Ill
ferences with Great Britain, has -peen IN
washington for a week and1has' paid sew
eraI visits to the State Department IN COM
pany with DIR. Guzman, the resident MICA
raguan minister -,
II cannot be denied that this new Incl
dent. taken in connection with the hostile
attitude of Great Britain toward our sister
republic of Venezuela, promises TO ieao "
trouble of a character much more serious
than the little incident of the Alliance,
which has caused such a commotion- me
administration is evidently about 10 De put
in a position where 1t must lay Gown
new construction of the Monroe doctrine
or else abandon all concern IN the future
of the smaller republics Of Central and
South America. ~
The Case Of VenexsfeIn.
In Venezuela 1t Is alleged that the British
are steadily extending their boundary line
and encroaching upon Venezuelan territory
in spite of the strong protests OF the
Venezuelan government and the repeated
urging of the United States that the ques-
ton of boundary should be settled by re-
sort to arbitration, not of a part OF the
question, excluding the main issue as de-
sired by Great Britain but by the suomis-
sion of the whole issue. But there also aie
questions of indemnity arising IN Venezueid
growing out of claims preferred by otner
Flu, opean nations. and there are indica-
tons noted by officials here to snow tnal
these are being pressed by concerted actioh:
Many of the claims for indemnity grow out
of the failure of these republics TO meet
their obligations to foreign debtors under
the stress of hard times and the influence
of the worldwide depression In TRACE. AS
the European governments appear 10 DC
moving to collect THESE iHuiFtou1i uSo.S -
their own account it is a question that the
United States must speedily settle as TO
how far it is prepared to permit this pro-
cess to go on. 49,
AS to Nicaragua it is felt here that the
terms of the British ultimatum are unduiy
severe.
On the whole, 1t is more than probable
that the President will feel called upon to
interpose to secure at least an amelioration
of the terms Of the ultimatum, by an appear
to the British government, representing the
great hardship that it would work to
Nicaragua under the present depressed con-
dition Of her finances to prefer demand
for SO large an indemnity as $4,000.