The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1902-12-19
WILD FOR A EIGHT.
The Seizure Of Their Ships stirs Up
the Venezuelans. M
DANGEROUS FOR FOREIGNERS.
Mob Attempted to lsrcals in German
ana British Legations. Thcn
All Subjects OF Those
Countries Arrested.

COuntrics Arrested.
The oua. gel between England and
Germany oh tho one side and Vcnezu-
elan on th9 other has reached . crisis
Ten Gcrmin and four British cutters
captured 3hc Venezuelan leet at Tia
Guayra on Wednesday. They; went
ialongsl0c 'Jiic Venezuelan vessels and
}oiuoi Onciif.c.>,p<e ts,;iS ~ Ui}nIU
ia shot being fired, the British and
German forces seized tho feet in the
name OF the German emperor and the
king Of England Two or the vessels
which were undergoing repairs were
broken up. The German cruiser
Panther steamed into ti1r harbor dur
ing these proceedings with her docks
cleared for action. IDS Venezuelan
steamers were taken outside the har-
bnr at : o'clock tlliS morning. Tie
General Crcspo, Tutmo and Margrita
were sunk. The OSSun was the ouly
vessel spared in view Of the protest
made by the French charge d'airaircs,
| III. QuicvrcuX, who notified the com
modolp OF The allied tlcct that the
OSSun Is the property Of Il F'rcnchman.
At 10 o'clock Wednesday evening
130 German sailors were landed and
proceeded to CARDINAL, a suburb or La
Guayra, in Which is situated the resi-
dcnce OF German Consul LcntZ, who
With his family they escorted back to
LII Guayra and placed on board the
wavship Vineta. On their way back
The German sailors met party Of
Venezuelan soldiers, but no collision
took place. At 5 O'clock Thursday
morning 4 landing party OF 80 British
seaman went to the British consulate
and conducted the British consul, Il.
Scliunek, and his tHmily Oil bo;i ri' the
RcUributi0n. The German and British
residents at La Guayra have been ar
| rested with the exception Of NcsSrs
Ficldwick, Prince and Lepagc, tho
| English directors Of the harbor cor
poration, who barricddcd themselves
in their house.
WANT TO FIGHT.
There was agreat patriotic demon
! Stration in Caracas when the news ar
arrived that The British and German
warShips had seized the Venezuelan
war vessels at La Guayra. Crowds
quickly gathered and paradcd the
street and squares or the capital dis
playing banners and singing patriotic
songs. Violent speeches were deliver
cd at various points. The populacc
marched to the palace or President
Castro, who addressed il. The mob
then moved on to the German lcga-
tion shouting Death to the Ger
mans" The windows were shattered
with stones and attempts were made
to force the doors, but the latter re-
sisted these efforts, and Nine. yon
Pilgrim Baltazzi, the wife OF the Ger
man charge d'aifaircs, who has been
i'll in bed for the past two months and
therefore could not leave Caracas with
her husband, was thus saved from
violence. The crowd then marched
to the German consulate and to the
residence OF DR.. Iiochlcr, again ston-
| ing the windows and Attempting to
force an entrance. The police made
no effort to dspcrsc the dcmonStra-
tion.
The excitement was still intense,
when at 10 O'Clock at night tho COVER
nor ordered the arrest OF all the Ger
man and English residents One hour
later 205 persons prominent in social
and commercial life were crowded to-
gcther in the police station All the
British residents were arrested except
Albert Cherry, or the Vcnczulea-
BritiSh-owned Central railway, and
| Mr.. Wallace, manager Of the telc-
phone company, who escaped to a
place Of safety. Nincty-scvcn Ger
man residents were arrested, among
| them the German consul, Valentine
/ Blohm and Herr Knoop, the
manager Of the German Central
railway. Herr Smross, chancellor
| of the German legation, was
met by the police near Bolivar square
and also arrested. Amid cries Of
Death to the Germans and ''Down
with the foreigners" the populacc di-
rcctcd It's way to Ghc German residcn-
tial quarter and gathered outside the
/. Hotel Klindt and the German club,
yocifcratlng and uttcring insults.
CAUSE or THE TROUBLE
. o..ucitt "i,hE ~ .o,,; ~
avoid payment or Bristisilp ....a ~ ~
man claims fora long time, and orJ;:
recently did the British and German
governments decide to enforce the col
lection OF these claims. No schedule
OF these claims against Venezuela has
ever been published, but it is known
that The total Is nearly $40, 900, 900.
i Of the two nations, Germany is the
larger creditor, about $4,000, 900 Of
the &c, 1000, GOO being due German SUBJ
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