Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-10
THE VENEZUELAN QUESTION.
Sir John Lubbock Speaks of It as a Trivial = Frontier Disnute-Stanlay,s Views.

 Frontier Dispute-Stanley's Views. London, Jan 9.-The colonia office has issued statement declaring that the statement printed in a New York news paper today in the alleged cable dispatch from Caracas, Venezuela, that the Brit ish troops with cannon, have arrived al Cuyuni, Is absolutely unfounded.
 The Times, dwelling upon the many dangerous clements which tend to make F the Anglo-American situation still se- rious, this morning refers to MT. George w. Smalley's renewed plea for the fullest and earliest disclosure of the English case in regard to the Venezuelan frontier dispute, and continues:
 Tt is impossible not, to acknowledge the force of the contention, and really if no more serious obstacle to the course he advocates exists than the technical rule as to the publication of official doc uments, the sooner some ingenious meth cd of propitating the goddess Red Tape" is hit upon the better. Blue books, 1t is whispered, may not be issued with impunlty save while parliament is sit ting Parliament will not sit for another month and therefore both America and England must wait Events, however, must not wait, and if events do not wait the feelings of passion and prejudice will not wait and we may have renewal of the crisis upon us.'
 r The Tir.cfr -aca, whether or not this blue book tradition is worth upholding at the risk of precipitating a war from which two great peoples shrink with hor- TOT, and suggests that the London Ga- zette be utilized to give the information needed. The paper urges the ministers to accelerate the preparation of the nec- essary documents and concludes its ar ticle thus
 "We should, regardless of precedents, set our case fairly before the world. We firmly believe it Is a good case, and that, if produced before passion gets the upper hand of judgment will be received In fair and amicable spirit. But the dan ger is growing danger and If it is to be stemmed successfully it must be stemmed at once" ~ 3si' 's- <{@
 The Westminster Gazette publishes report of an interview with Sir John lubbock, M. P, for London university, in which he says 79
 ''If the trivial Venezuela frontier dis putes shall result in Great Britain and the United States settling all their dis putes by arbitration, where diplomacy fails, then the disputes are a great bless ing; but President Cleveland's gratuitous threat of war is not calculated to promote an amicable settlement. England only ,refused to arbitrate territory which our .eolonists have occupied for many years. AS regards Justice Harlan's precise pro- ,posal to submit disputes between the United States and Great Britain to
  her of justices of the supreme court of the United States and of the high court sof justice of England, 1t should require time to think it oyer carefully, though I approve of some such tribunal" The Sun prints report of an interview with Henry M. Stanley, the explorer, in which MT. Stanley is reported as saying: We shall reach an amicable settlement of our difficulty with America as soon as possible Then we shall not fear Ger many if she interferes with British suzerainty in the Transvaal.''
 The Daily News will tomorrow say that the distribution of 9 circular. inviting authors to sign the appeal of British lit- erary men to American authors and oth- CT writers to do everything possible to avert a war is SO strongly reprehended that a special meeting of the Society of Authors has been convened for January 15 to consider the matter
 Glasgow. Jan. 9-The Glasgow Herald claims to have semi-offic cal authority for the statement that Lord Salisbury's atti- tude in regard to Venezuela is wholly un- changed, and that upon no account will he submit to arbitration territory occu- pied by British subjects, who are relying upon Great Britain's protection. Lord Salisbury, the Herald says. is ready to arbitrate all questions which the diplo- matic dispatches have admitted to be open. and is also ready to concede any in- considerable claims which do not involve a transfer of the allegiance of British subjects. q. 7-..a- l44