Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-03-12
GREAT BRITAIN's CASE
u Radiation to the Venezuelan Ter
xitorial Controversy.


Sir Frederick Pollock. In Which
He Makes Strong Case
FOR England.
1HE BRlr1sH CASE 4GAINsr VENEZUELA.
LoxDcN, March 5.-The st. James
Gazette, under the caption: The Brit
1sh Case Against Venezuela pub
dishes two colu INNS of matter, which it
claims Is q summary Of the report made
by Sir Frederick Pollock for sub
mission to parliament. The Gazette
says that, besides having at his dis.
posal documents in possession Of the
British colonial and foreign offices, Sir
Frederick Pollock has drawn freely
from information made accessible to
the British government by the keepers
of the E
ARCHIVES OF SPAIN AND HOLLAND.
The material supplied by Holland cov-
ers the period from the latter part of
the sixteenth century to the second
decade of the nineteenth century, and
the Spanish documents cover the period
since the first ascent of the Amazon by
Orellana, in 1912, and from the first as
cent of the Orinoco by Juan Martinez
until Venezuela, in 1880. assumed indie
pendent existence. The evidence in
cludes the particulars and circum-
stances in which the British took pos
session of the whole of
THE DUTCH WEST INDIA COLONIES,
tn R81, 17st and 1903, and the treaties
under which these transformers were
ratified, the first one being concluded
in 1914, to which Spain was party.
The evidence also includes the story
of the correspondence and negotiation
with the various interested govern
ments by Venezuela from 1910 down to
the present time.
The information supplied by the
colonial office comprises that collected
by the successive governorssof the ter
ritory since the administration of Col.
Nicholson, in 1903, as regards the ex-
tent and -
CHARACTER OF THE DUTCH OCCUPATION
and exploration of the interior, and
also the details of the Venezuelan in
cursions into British territory between
the Orinoco and the Cuyuni, the at
tempts of American concessionaires to
establish themselves in British Guiana,
the steps taken to maintain British
ownership and the work done by Great
Britain to ascertain the natural and
geographic boundary without preju-
dice to strict territorial rights beyond
such boundary. These documents, ac-
eompanied by
IMPORTANT MAPS BEARING THEREON,
show British case of overwhelming
strength against Venezuelan preten-
.sions OF ownership to the west bank of
the Essequibo.
The report shows that the Dutch had
from the earliest times possession of
the coast of Guiana as far north as the
mouth of the Orinoco, such possession
implying the right of ownership of the
hinterland, right exercised by the
had coffee, cotton and sugar planta-
Eions far up the rivers and
PRosPEcrED FOR GOLD AND SILVER
I'm t1ae basin of the Cuyuri. The early
Dutch maps give the northwest boun-
dairy, starting from Parma Point and
taking northwesterly course inland,
roughly parallel with the Orinoco to
the confluence of the Caroni and the
Orinoco. One of these maps, prepared
for Louis XIV. of France, by the kings
geographer, De Liste, and printed in
Amsterdam in 1774, shows the line of
partition according to the
BULL ISSUED By POPE ALEXANDER W.,
allotting the whole of South America
west of the Amazons to Spain, and the
syhole of the territory on the east of
the Amazon to Portugal. To the west
of this is a large section extending
from the Amazon to the mouth of the
Orinoco marked Guyana" This nis
divided in two, the Dutch part extend
ing from Barima to the river Mariwini
and the French part from the Mari
wini to Cape Nord
ON THE DELTA OF THE AMAZON.
The Spanish settlement of st. Thome,
on the Orinoco, appears on this map,
but the Dutch line from Barimi is iden-
tilted with the line representing the
extreme British claims. The Essequibo
is expressly taken out of the limits of
the Spanish. settlements, not only by
the line mentioned, but by the words
-'EzseqyTibe Aux Holland"
BIB FREDERICK POLLOCK PROPOSES
that the Spaniards at no time estab-
lished themselves in Guiana proper un-
til they overran part of the British ter
ritory to the Cuyuni in and since 1858.
They got no further than the Orinoco.
The fact that st. Thome is marked on
the French map as the extreme limit of
their stations is proved by a Dutch
map, which, in 1898, was prepared for
the COMMITTEES of colonies of the Ba-
tavian republic by Maj. Won Blouchen-
roeder. This map shows that the
DUTCH FRONTIER BEGINS AT BARIMA,
from which a straight line is drawn in
land with the words above it '.Ancien
Poste Hollandais Sur Les Limites De
Possessiones Espagnoles." This map
was prepared to assist the statesmen
who were negotiating the cession OF
the Dutch colonies in South America
to Great Britain. Sir Frederick Pol
loci, gives details showing that it was
upon the basis of this and similar maps
that the cession was effected.
THE CORRESPONDENCE
taken from the archives shows that
when the Spanish showed themselves
in the Cuyuni valley the Dutch gov
-ernment vigorously protested to Spain
against the entertainments of her sub
jects upon Dutch territory. The ar
chives show that Spain did not answer
the protests OF the Dutch government.
Certainly Spain did not assert her
ownership of the region in question.