The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-31
is NOW IN COLOMBIA
LATEST ADVICEs AS TO WHERE
ABOUTs OF HEAD OF THE
INSURGENTS
ARREST OF COL. MUR1IIo
Held That Germany Has No Ground
for Action, as He Was Taken
From a Merchant
Vessel

NEW YORK, July 30.-Dr. A. J. Res
trepo agent of the Colombian insurgents,
and Raoul Perez, who was general Uribe-
TRIBES private secretary, declare, the
Times will say tomorrow, that the gen
eral is now in Colombia, They refused
to tell just where he is, but said that
they expected cable advices from him to-
morrow. He will have the assistance,
they say, of Gems. Herrera and Marin and
their armies. The latter has 5000 men in
the interior of the department of Tolima
Senior Perez explained that in Colombia
there has always been certain degree
of antagonism between the Free Masons
and the clergy, and that this fact was
taken advantage of by the insurgent
party Sympathizers all over the world,
he averred, contributed $200,OOO for NUM-
tions for Gen. Uribe-Uribe's operations
Dr. Restrepo, Senior Perez further ex-
planned, while he was in Europe bought
1900 Mauser rifles of the most modern
pattern. The doctor also bought 2,OOO,GO
cartridges in Belgium with the funds,
Uribe-U Tribe being in considerable need Of
ammunition. All this armament, Senor
Perez says, was shipped months ago to
Colombia in sailing vessels, labeled as
potatoes and asparagus.
Still further, according to Perez, If the
Liberal party, of which Gen. Uribe-Uribe
is the head. succeeds in overthrowing the
Conservative party's government, the
French Panama Canal company will be
notified that all of it's concessions are
void, that company having been notified
some time ago that if 1t bought conces-
sions when the government was willing
to sell, it would gain nothing if the Lib
erals won
Colombian Consul General Brigard said
that he thought Gen. Uribe-U Tribe was
either in Maracaibo or Curacao. At the
Maritime Exchange today it was report
ed that Herbert o. Jeffries who was said
to hold a high position in the Colombian
military service, is in New York, and
that he has been negotiating for large
amounts of supplies and inspecting local
vessels with view to their possible sale
and their conversion into ships of war.
He is rumored to have said that Tribe
Tribe had been planning operations of an
extensive kind, and that after Col Mu-
rllo left Savanilla on the steamer Allie
gheny, from which he was taken ashore
as prisoner, important information was
gained by the Colombian government.
ARREST OF COL. MURILLO.
NEW YORK, July 30.-According to the
Washington correspondent of the Trib-
une, the news dispatch of Col Abel Mu-
rillo's arrest by the Colombian authori-
ties at Cartagena, on board the Ham
burg-American steamer, awakened inter-
est in the state department, and among
the Spanish American legations, on the
supposition that the German emperor
would undertake TO call the Colombian
authorities to account. Had the Allie
gheny been under the American, French
or any other than the German flag, in
any other than a South American port,
she would be regarded as unworthy of
notice, for the established principles of
international law governing the status Of
a merchant vessel in port are too well
recognized by maritime nations to eX-
cite much attention.
The extra-territoriality of a national
warship is usually respected, but for
eign merchant vessel Of whatever nation
ality is subject to the laws of any port
she happens to visit and cannot afford a
refuge for a citizen of her own national
ity, not to mention a citizen of the ma
ton in whose jurisdiction the vessel is
temporarily found. The United States
has never failed to force this principle
in her. own ports. Great Britain has fire.
quently opposed the principle, declaring
that English law and not international
law governs British ships, wherever they
went, but the United States has paid no
attention to the contention and the New
York police are supported in searching
any British ship in New York harbor.
At the state department the Murillo af-
fair is, therefore, looked upon as not
really alarming, and unless it can be
shown that Colombian authorities have
insulted the German flag, it is thought
the matter will be passed in silence by
Germany,