Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-04-25
DIPLOMATS DISTURBED
England's Attitude Toward Nicaragua
May Mean Endless Aggression.
Much Anxiety and Apprehen-
sion at Washington.
Occupation Of O arInto BY the BriiIah Almost IN
- Assured Fact


WASHINGTON. April eS. - The diplo-
matio representatives Of the Central
and South American republics are very
much disturbed by ths latest feature Of
the British Nioaraguan case (ths meeting
Of bond obligations) for they fear that IL
opens vista Of endless trouble and ag.
gressisn In the future.
Their Idea IL that once Great Britain IL
permitted without interference TO collect
this special indemnity, she will avail her-
self Of the excuse offered By che failure Of
Nicaragua to meet her interest payments
on foreign debt to assume the task of
collecting this foroibly In the same
manner. notwithstanding tho fact that
the failure may be brought about by her
own seizure Of the customs receipts which
wsre to be applied to the payment Of this
interest.
OF course this would necessitato tho 90
supati0n Of Corinto until the original In
dsmnity shall have been collected, which
would only add to the financial distress OF
Nicaragua, and should she be unable. as
seoms likely, to meet this last demand,
the occupation may bc prolonged SO In,
definitely as to amount to q permanent
occupation Of the territory.
This Is the reasoning OF the South
Americans, and they find individual
cause for apprehension In the fact that al
most all Of these little republics owe
sums Of money to European bondholders
on account Of interest or principal OF nG-
tional debts, and they fear that for tho
first timo the principle may be laid down
and enforced that European government
may assume tho collection OF debts owing
to It's citizens as individuals, and not to
the European nation, doctrine which
they assert would be particularly obnox-
ious II applied to some of the states OF tho
American Union. which have defaulted In
their debts to foceign bondholders.
worrimsut at the Capitol.
It IL felt here that the present situati on
Is one justifying apprehension and anx-
iety on the part Of our own government
While 1t is not expected that the Nicar-
aguan government will offer any armed
resistance to the landing of the British
forces, still IL Ia feared that during tho
time the town Of Corinto - occupied by
the foreigners tie natives may be re.
strained with difficulty, and the close ocn-
tact into which the two discerdsnt ole
ments will certainly b brought might at
any moment lead to An outbreak, winding
up In . general war.
The tenure Of the present NicaraguAn
government 10 none too secure, and it 10
felt thst II would be'expeoting almost too
much from 1t 70 hope that ,it,could resist
,suooesefully an impulse OF the people To-
ward war, even should the cause be with
out probable success for their side In the
end. yaE E@tse4@sa t a.ag- se
It II evident that onr state department
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Secretary Gresham has bsen in consulta-
tion with tbs presidents and she Nioar-
aguan minister on tho subject and it h
believed that he has been using his best
efforts to prevent resort to extremes by
intimating that the indemnity had better
be paid. n FeHa
England's UItimstum.
A despatch from Managua states that
Arthur, now at Corinto with the Satellite
and Wild Swan, has handed the Mica
raguan minister of foreign affairs Great
Britain's ultimatum.
Is gives the government of Nicaragua
three days In which to settle the claim
made by Great Britain, failing which set
Element England will blockade the port
OF Corinto and also land troops and &C.
cupy the city.
Corinto Is the best port Of the Central
American states on the Pacific coast 1t
is most important to Nicaragua as it Is
the terminus Of the line of the Central
railway. It Is very old place. and was
formerly called Raelejo. This was one Of
the best Spanish American harbors In the
old days, but it is becoming filled up, and
10 now somewhat smaller a. to anchorage
There 10 no difficulty, however, Ia the
entrance, and there IL depth Of Is feet Of
water Ia tho harbor at low tide Between
tho island Of Carbon and the point Of
Castanones there il q dangerous bar. The
port of San Juan-dsl- Sur has Q harbor Of
average size and there II sufficiently good
anchorage. tits filling with sand, how
ever, and the entrance IL becoming ohoksd,
making shipping more difficult. San
Juan-del6ur 10 in communication with
Lake Nicaragua By maoadam road built
BY the New York and California Transit
company.
Corinto 10 the hsa~iest import point In
Nicaragua. The imperts there for lse1.M
were "a, ,006 sos while all imports to other
points aid not exceed 46Oo, o,0O0 II 10 svi-
dent from this why Ne British chose
Corinto for their stroke Almost ono half
of the imports - CoRipto are from Crest
Britain, 20 that The British seizure of the
custom houses will reault in their receiv-
ing the customs dues from British mer.
chant ships. The British imports for
is9l-02 were e. l82. oOl those of the United
States came second, at e1,l97,65o; Ger.
many, l,042, ,O65; France, GODS, LA. The
rest Of the import trade was with neigh
boring South and Central American coun.
triea
Mcbride ExoNsraisl
INDIANAPOLIS, April 96.-Ths executive