The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1902-12-18
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Italian Minister to Venezuela
+ Ordered on Board Cruiser
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HERNANDEZ RECEIVES WELCOME
Allies Undecided whether to Accepts
ae Arbitration Proposal -f Venezuela
81 May BE Unwilling to Talk on Sub.
Jeet while Menaeed by Guns.

received orders from his government
to leave Caracas this morning and Eo,
aboard the Italian cruiser 6 ioyanni
Bausans Minister Riya.s. family will,
remain here under the protection 10.
United States .dinister Bowen, IN
whose hands all Italian interests have
been placed.
Cologne Dec. 1.-THE Cologne
Gazette publishes a dispatch from
Berlin. which says it-is doubtful II at
the present stage OF the Venezuelan
| difficulty arbitration can be consid-
cred by Germany. German can at
ford to await, the dispatch adds. the
outcome Of situation that is very
uncomfortable for President Castro.
Gaining Confidence.
Caracas. Dec. 17.-Confidence IS
gradually being restored and the pop
ular scare is appreciably abatins.
German and British traders have
reopening their places of business and
many of these who recently sought
domicile in the United States legation
and in the abandoned British lega.
ton, which Mr.. Russell, secretary Of
the, American legation, had reopened
Under the United States flag, are now
returning to their shops and their
| homes.
There Is much discussion here now
OF the possibility of arbitration.
President Castro yesterday declined
to express his views. but 1t was
learned that persons who are close
| to him are unanimous in the belief
that some satisfactory result through
arbitration would be more readily at
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minister, We're permitted to go to
Washington and there discuss the
question fully and frankly with the
German ambassador.
The feeling is prevalent thai any
acceptance or discussion of arbitr1-
ton here while La Guaira remains
menaced by the allies guns would be
offensive to Venezuela's sense OF ma
tionai pride.
Hernandez Reaches La euaira.
La Guaira. Dec. 1.-THE American
steamer Merida, belonging to the Red
D line OF New York, arrived here yes
terday morning at half-past o'clock
from Willemstad, Curacao. On board
the Merida were Ell Mocho" Herman.
DEE, the revolutionary general who
was recently released by President
Castro from prison at Maracaibo, AMI
R. Schunck. British consul at La
Guaira. who on the morning of Dec.
10 was escorted with his family from
the. consulate to the British cruiser
Retribution by marines from that YES.
sell
Long before the arrival Of the
Merida the streets and piers OF La
Guaira were filled with great crowd
The people were orderly. lei Mocho"
disembarked from the Merida ut
O'Clock. The train run by the harbur
corporation from where steamers tie
up to the pier to the customs house
waited as usual for the Merida's pas.
sengers. but General Hernandez pre-
ferred to cover the distance to the
customs house on foot. He was fol.
lowed by an enthusiastic crowd,
which cheered him all the way.
Think Germany Too Aggressive.
Rome. Dec. 17.-In the Hobbies of
the chamber of deputies yesterday
Venezuela was the exclusive topic &c
conversation. The opinion OF a ma
iority Of the deputies is that Ger
many has been too aggressive in her
actions. which are calculated to COM
plicate the situation. II is therefore
thought to be eminently desirable that
the Venezuelan matter be settled by
arbitration.
London. Dec. 17,-Rumors are cur.
rent in Brussels and Copenhagen that
Holland and Denmark are about to
present their claims to Venezuela for
settlement.
Caracas, Dec. 1.-THE Spanish min
f,N, 70
Ayala, and the Belgian charge daft
flares, M. Van der Heyde, has pre-
scented joint letter to the Venezuelan
minister OF foreign affairs. in which
they ask, in case the claims of other
foreign powers shall be paid by vene-
zuela, that the same treatment given
these powers be accorded to Spain
and Belgium.
Trying to Make Headway.
Washington, Dec. 17.-Cable mes.
sages were passed all day yesterday
between the state department and the
United States ambassadors at Lon.
don. Berlin and Rome and between
Secretary Hay and Minister Bowen at
Caracas In an endeavor to make some
Roadway in bringing about arbitrn.
ton OF the claims OF the three Euro.
pean powers now united in coercing
Venezuela They have been asked a
second time to consider arbitration.
Minister Bowen had not been heard
from in "a hours except to make an
inquiry. The subject OF this could
not be learned. but 1t is understood
to have reference to what position IL
should assume in view of certain
eventualities which might arise in
consequence of the virtual war which !
the allies are pressing on President