Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-12-09
VENEZUELA
MUST PONY UP
Great Britain and Germany viii
Seize Customs Houses,
|lF DEBTS ARE NOT SETTLED
ministers al Caracas shut UP
shop and Go Aboard ws'sn'p'
castro is Dumbfounded.

,oraon Dec. s.--Great Britain ana
Germany have presented ultimatums 10
,,.,oIa which viii be followed UP
,no seizure OF the customs houses
~ 80 satisfactory settlement Is
sor,bcomlng within a brief period The
,uno,ums have time limit, but the
ovoc, date cannot be ascertained here
T,te foreign office states, with regard
10 the limit ILL,
~, Is a reasonable time in which
,,.no7pela can satisfy the injured gov
,,a,nants. Both notes are practically
,,oOtical although the amounts OF the
,ins differ The notes merely re-
cial The continued disregard by the
,v.nag,elan government OF all our rep
'en,sives. specify our claims ana
sanand immediate action on the part
os'I pstresident Castros government In
osnneotIon herewith !,
me British government case Is
,,actIcally identical with the state
,asnts made In previous dispatches
n ,,om London In which II was FIRST an
ronnced that the action was contem-
sSonld the British ultlmatum meet
.a,h hostile reception, the British
sinister w. H. D. Haggard, has been
,n"tructed TO 20 aboard British war
.sln ar n that Is impracticable, to go
law, ,~ ,he neiehborlng British colony.
'' p,enier Balfours announcement In
,he house Of commons THIS afternoon
!. regarded as merely the obvious cnl-
solnatIon 10 the situation, which daily
lac been becoming more critical for the
mast three months.
'Tbe foreign office says
aTbere Is not the slightest desire to
coerce Venezuela, and II any answer
Nod been made to our repeated pro-
,Ssts and demands no such action as
nav taken would have been proceeded
wI,h II was the persistent and Insult
Ing disregard to all representations
witch compelled us to move. II Is now
,oo late In the day for anything but
purely diplomatic arrangements for the
abstraction of our injuries. When the
spets have assembled there Is scarcely
fine 10 deal with bankers, and a finan-
fal settlement, which should have
len suggested long ago, and would
nave been welcomed by both Germany
and ourselves. However. any bona fide
Imposition will receive careful atten-
ion Reconstruction In commercial ar
hrs Is always better than liquidation,
and II the reconstruction Of the Vene-
,ielan finances can be accomplished TO
Ne satisfaction OF our diplomatic
Gains and individual losses, both Ger
many and Great Britain will have
aAeyed their ends"
MINISTER'S LEAVE CARACAS.
Caracas. Dec. S.--The British minis
IN W II. ID. Haggard, and the Ger
man charge d'affaires, Won Pilgrim
naazzl. left Caracas at 3 o'clock this
slHnoon for La Guayra, where Minis
Ter Haggard went on board the British
cruiser Retrbution and Herr Won Pill
n.Baltagzi boarded the German
cruiser vineta. Both the British and
Gsman legations have been closed.
Yesterday afternoon the British min
ltr and the German charge danalres
dgoslted at the private residence OF
N foreign minister Lopez Barraiet,
s,arate demands; the British demand
tsng for the settlement OF claims and
cher matters arising out OF the last
nolutlons, and the German demand
hhg for the payment Of the interest
o. the German loans and other claims.
n demands are without specification
aio the time given for an answer, but
Thy are in the form Of an utlmatum,
AS o'clock today Minister Haggard,
M secretary, Grant Dun. and the
caincellor Of the legation, Godfred, left
Cncas in company with the German
clifge d'affaires, Won Pilgrim Baltaz-
q for In Guayra. on the arrival Of
u train at the latter port, at 5 o'clock,
S5ficers met the diplomats at the sta
TN. Minister Haggard and the other
rimbers Of the British legation went
o, board the British cruiser Retribu-
Tn, while the German charge d'afaires
earded the German cruiser Vlneta.
The ministers left Caracas without pre-
vously notifying the Venezuelan gov
eminent, probably In order TO avoid any
hostile demonstration.
Yesterday and today being festivals
IN Caracas, all the nuN''c ohicos ara
and II Ia impossible 10 see any
one In authority regarding the aepart-
ule Of the ministers. The handing In
Of demand OF such nature at the
private residence OF a minister. forget
uhg all diplomatic rules. If believed In
some quarters TO be without precedent
me actual situation IL Incompetent
able here Up TO this morning no one
sppeared TO know anything about the
AShglo-derman projected demonstration,
we foreign minister said that he con-
suered u menace on the part Of Ger
many 10 be inadmisslble. and that any
Unreal would be only "balon d'essai. :"
- ior England said the minister,
sre mas no grounds for aggression"
ne Associated Press correspondent
,ns,erted The two legations yesterday
s s ,hefe We're then no preparations in
uNauhs mat the ministers intended to
svahdon their posts. The government
w. made no military preparations at
~ tuayta. Venezuela citizens con-
soertd the threat Of a demonstration
pun and set aside the possibility
"sn Anglo-German demonstration.
+, ihe correspondent learns that one OF
NJ vn'ei officers Of the German cruiser
eme.a Tod German family at In
s.sayra Yesterday that a blockade OF
wy coasts OF Venezuela was imminent.
CASTRO is DUMBFoUNDED.
caracas, Dec. s. The Venezuelan
Ress publishes an omen letter from