The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-03-12
BLUE BOOK ON VENEZUELA.
A FORECAST OF THE Bhlll0h
CASE HAS BEEN GIVEN To
THE PUBLIC.
STATEMENT OF PROFESSOR POLLOCK
Who prepared the Case-Spanish ana
Holland Archives Ransacked FROM
Rack in the Sixteenth Century.
A Mastery Effort.

1ordon March 4.-The st. James ia
uette this afternoon publishes 1orecas'
summorv of the British Blue Book on the
vonezuelon situation, which is shortly 10
no issucd. 1t is said to contain eXtrac'S
from tho archives of Holland, from tue
latter part of the sixteenth century 10 'ne
second decade of the nineteenth cen'ui'
and axtrocts from the archives OF SPAN
e;noo 1542 TO yenezuela's independence
In 1880. :.
All the documents in this connecticut IL
!. so;d have been ransacked in order to
establish the British case against the
Venezuelan claim for possession OF the
wost bank of the Essequibo. 1t VIII
he shown. it is said, that the possessions
Of that bank is Great Britains beyonu
doubt. n,
The statement of Sir Frederick FOL
bck professor of jurisprudence OF TX
ford university, who has prepared the
British case, is desired by the 81 JahieS
Gazette as being remarkable Tor mas
terly details and for force and clearhess
of his conclusions.
Continuing, the st. James Gazette says:
"The statement shows the Dutch 0c-
cupaton of the coast of Guiana up 10 Tue
mouth of the OrinOco, such possession
implying the right of ownership 10 tne
hinter land back country when, II Is
shown, the Dutch exercised III the SIN
teenth century. Inc maps give .n
northwest boundary as starting from
Rarami point and going northwest miami
through the parallel to the Orinoco, to the
confluence of the Cuyuni and INDIGO. Ac-
cording to the map which De Bisle pre-
nored for Louis XIV in 1744 the deliml-
tation of the district and the Dutch
boundary from Barima point is identicai
with the present British claims,
"Sir Frederick Pollock proves that the
Standards were never established IN Gui
ana proper until they oyerran part OIL
the British territory in 1898.
previously the extreme Spanish settle
ment was st. Hume. This is borne out
by the Dutch map of 1913, prepared
for the assistance of the statesmen VINO
were negotiating the cession of the Dutch
colonies in America to Great Britain.
"Sir Frederick Pollock enters into the
details to show that the cession was Ell
fected on this basis: A document print
ed in Venice in 1176 and another IN 10
agree with the Louis Ky map Oh lat IT,
"Sir Frederick Pollock esta bllshes pe-
yond question that Holland vigorously
protested against Spaniards entering the
Cuyuni valley. 49,,
"'The Spanish correspondence quoted
shows that the government rejected the
advice of Governor Cumana to push the
Dutch out of Cuyuni. The proposals
were too audacious, as the territory was
too extensive. 49,,
"The Dutch archives have been so
we'll kept that Sir Frederick Pollock was
able to establish an lrrefutable case for
the British ownership of the Cuyuni
basin, though there is no adduclble cyl
dence as to how far the Dutch held the
country between the Schomburgk line
and the OrinOco."
"' CAUSED BY JEALOUSY.
Jersey City, n. j., March 4..Jeal-
ousy caused the shooting of father
and his son and young woman, an
Italians this afternoon and it is thought
dangerously wounded: The shots were
fred by Alexander Fiore of New York
City. The victims are Giovanni de
Lula and his 29-year-old son, the latter
fatally, and Clotilda Nicolle, about -
years old, who was shot in the head.
According to the statement of Fiore, he
brought the woman from Italy some
years ago. Some weeks ago Sne leIt
him and lived in the apartments of the
de Luizas. Fiore says the de LuiZas
took the woman away from him.
WILL REACH HERE SATURDAY.
London, March 5.-The Chronicle says
that the government blue book on Ven
ezuela will reach Washington on Satur-
day and will be distributed here on the
same day. 1t is believed, says the
Chronicle, that the present state of the
matter is that Lord Salisbury and Secrc
tary Olney have both made proposals and
each has declined the others proposal
ROSEBERRY ON ARBITRATION.
London, March 5-The Daily News
this morning prints letter from the Earl
of Rosebery, late Liberal prime minister,
which should have been read at Tuesday
nights meeting in Queens hall in further
ance of Anglo-Amercan arbitration.
Lord ROseberry says:
Il heartily hope that it may be found
practicable to devise some court or rather
machinery of arbitration. / think the
machinery should be permanent, but not
the court. OF course there are subjects
which it may not be possible to refer to
arbitration. 1t need not affect the broad
principles The experiment may fail, but
that is no reason why it should not be
tried"