Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1902-12-11

LA GUAYRA. Dec. 10.-The combined
Anglo German feet Is entering this harbor
and the first vessels are not 800 feet from
the custom house. The landing Of marines
has begun.
wILLEMsTAD, Curacao, Dec. 1O--Thero
was a great patriotic demonstration in
Caracas last night when the news arrived
that the British and German warships had
seized the Venezuelan vessels.
crowd quickly gathered in the streets
and squares, displaying banners and sing
ing patriotic songs The populace marched
to the palace and the president ad-
dressed it.
! Then the mob moved on the German
| legation, shouting Death to the Germans"
The windows we're shattered with stones
/ and attempts made TO force the doors, but
! the latter resisted, and Nine. Won Pilgrim
/ Baltazzi, wife of the German charge daft
! fairs, who has been i'll in bed for two
months and therefore unable to leave
/ Caracas with her husband, was saved from
violence.
! The crowd then marched to the German
consulate and to the residence of Dr. Koch
! Ter, again stoning the windows and at
tempting to force an entrance. The police
made effort to dlsperse the demon.
/ strators.
The excitement was still intense when at
10 o'clock the government ordered the ar.
rest of all German and English residents.
One hour later 205 persons prominent IN
social and commercial life were crowded
together in the police station. All the
! British residents were arrested except Al
bert Cherry of tie Venezuelan british
owned) Central railway and Mr.. Wallace,
manager of the telephone company, who
escaped.
Foreigners Cast Into Jail.
Ninety y-seven German residents were arr ,
rested, among them the German consul
! valentin. Blohm. and Herr Knoff, manager
Of the German Central railway. & Herr
y Sinmross, chancellor OF the German lega- I
ticn. was met by the police near Bolivar
square and arrested
Amid cries OF Death to the Germans''
and Down with the the foreigners" the
populace directed its way to the German
residence quarter and gathered outside the
Hotel Klindt and the German club, vocif-
grating and uttering insults
On learning OF these incidents the United
States minister and his secretary, w. w.
Russell, went ut once to see President
Castro and after a long conference sue
ceeded in Obtaining the release OF DR..
Koehler, Nine. Won Pilgrim Baltazzis ply
slcian, and Herr Valentin Blohm Mr..
| Bowen also obtained OmCldl bhuctlOn 10
represent British and German interests
during the trouble.
The government has placed an embargo
on the British railroad to La Guayra and
} on the German Central railroad to Caracas
from Valencia.
The populace is still intensely excited
} and the situation is regarded as critical
The British and German flags have been
publicly burned.
Venezuelan ships sunk.
La Guayra, Venezuela, Dec. 10.-Ten Ger
man and four British cutters who captured
the Venezuelan fleet yesterday without
g shot being fired broke up two of the yes
sells, which were undergoing repairs, and
took the others outside the harbor.
This morning General Crespo, Tutmo and
Margarita were sunk Ossun was the only
, vessel spared, in view OF the protest made
by the French charge daffaires, H. Qulev-
reux, who notified the commodore OF the
allied fleet that It was the property OF a
Frenchman.
v At 10 O'Clock last evening 130 German
q sailors were landed and proceeded to Car
n donal, a suburb Of La Guayra, in which is
= situated the residence OF the general coun-
Z sui, who, with his family they escorted
l. back to La Guayra and placed on board a
Q warship. On their way the Germans met .
: party of Venezuelan soldiers, but no colli-
r sion took place.
At o'clock this morning landing party
d Of thirty British seamen went to the Brit
ish consulate and conducted the British
consul, r. Schunck, and family on board
2 Retribution.
The German and British residents at La
h Guayra have been arrested. with the ex-
cepton OF Messrs. Fieldwick Prince and
lie Page the English directors OF the har-
Dor projection, who barricaded theiI
houses. Later In the day they were res
e cued and taken on board Retribution.
Ie The Englishmen's houses we're sur
rounded by Venezuelan policemen. but
le when a party OF 800 sailors marched tC
Of their release no resistance was offered. al
TX though the German and British warshipi
ID had cleared for action.
The torpedo boat destroyer Quail ar
- rived here at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Tn,
o. German cruiser Panther left this morning
m in the direction of Carulano and Fake fo
III Puerto Cabello on a search for the re
e. mainder of the Venezuelan heet
1t is believed interchangeable is on IL
P" way to Cumana, the port OF Barcelona
m where the Venezuelan Eunboat Restaurado
m is now lying. Troops are expected fron
A. Caracas, as the government is ctedite,
a. with the intention OF repulslng any landing
forces All the stores and banks are closed
~ Great excitement prevails, as the popula
n tion fears the town may be shelled or othe
m action taken tonight.
.rt PARIS, Dec. lO.~-An oficial venezuelan
communication to it's representative her
w protests that Great Britain and Germany
u" acting in concert, have committed an &C
wv Of hostility in a manner as arbitrary a
il is unprecedented by the seizure Of Vene
H zuelan vessels lying at La Guayra.
I'M At the same time President Castro ha
appealed 10 the Venezuelan people 10 tax
'lh up arms. He has decreed a general am
I'm nesty for all political ofenses and has OF
dered the restitution OF the conhscate
'n property OF Venezuelan citizens.
*, England Has No News.
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