The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-03-05
THE vENtzUEIA DISPUTE.
Foreca1t of the rritsh side-A summary I
the Eorthc0m me Btuo Book.

Forecalt of the rritsh side-A Summary of
the Eorthcom'n me- H,uo Book.
London, March 4--The st, James Ga
zette this afternoon publishes a fore
cast summary of the British blue book
upon the Venezuelan situation which
Is soon to be issued. 1t is said to con-
tain extracts from the archives of Hol-
land, from the latter part of the six
teenth to the second decade of the nine
teenth century, and extracts from the
archives of Spain from Orellana's as
cent of the River Amazon in 1912 and
Mariners ascent Of the Orinoco river
to Diego de Ordaz, down to Venezuela's
independence in 1880
The ST. James Gazette says that
against the Venezuelan claim for pos
session Of the west bank of the Essequi-
DO it win be shown in overwhelming
strength that the possession of that
bank is Great Britain's beyond doubt
The statement of Sir Frederick Pollock
corpus professor of Jurisprudence Of OK
ford university, who has prepared the
British case, is described as being re
markable for mastery of detail and skin
in collating evidence, and the force and
clearness of it's conclusions" The pa
per adds.
1.-THE statement shows the Dutch oc-
cupation of the coast of Guiana up to
the mouth of the Orinoco, such posses
sion implying the right of ownership to
the hinterland (back country, which
right, it is shown, the Dutch exercised
in the sixteenth century The early
Dutch maps give the northwest boun-
dairy as starting from Barima Point
and oingnorthwestwar inland, rough
ly parallel to the 0rinoco, to the conflu-
ence of the Caroni and Orinoco. Ac-
cording to the map which De Lisle pre-
pared for Louis XIV. in 1774, the delim-
itation of the district and the Dutch
boundary from Barina Point is identi-
cal with the present British claims Sir
Frederick Pollock proves that the Span
iards were never established in Guiana
proper until they overran a part of the
British territory to the Cuyuni in 1858.
Previously the extreme Spanish settle
ment was st. Thome. This is borne out
by the Dutch map Of 1898, prepared for
the assistance of the statesmen who
| WEI { .tltSOllebllHS lllC hICNoiOli VI lilS
Dutch colonies in America to Great
Britain. Sir Frederick Pollock enters
| into the details to show that the ces-
sion was effected on this basis.
"An important map printed in Ven
| ice in 1875 and another in 1772 agree
with the Louis XIV, map of TIA. Sir
| Frederick Pollock establishes beyond
question that Holland vigorously pro-
tested whenever the Spaniards entered
the Cuyuni valley, that Spain had no
answer to these protests, and that, any
way, she never claimed it's ownership.
| But the states general twice, in 1859 and
in 1863, demanded reparation for Span
ish violation of the Dutch territory In
the Cuyuni
Dutch correspondence is cited as
sorting ownership of the entire water
shed of the Essequibo, laying great
| stress upon rights to the Cuyuni, where
the Dutch had gold diggings and forts
and with whose Indian tribes they had
intercourse for $50 years. The Spanish
correspondence quoted shows that the
| government rejected the advice of Gov
ernor Cumana to push the Dutch out
of Cuyuni. The government declared
that the proposals We're too audacious
as they. attempted to show that Guiana
was more extensive than was actually
| the case.
THE Dutch archives have been sc
well kept that Sir Frederick Pollock
was able to establish an irrefragablt
case for the British ownership Of the
Cuyuni basin, though there is no adj
ducible evidence as to how far the
| Dutch held the country between the
Schomburgk line and the Orinoco"