Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-12-11


the situation, recognize the possibility
Of awkward complications arising, but
are disposed to believe that President
Castro, after making show OF de-
nance, may be brought 20 reason With
out the allied powers having recourse
TO the seizure OF customs,
II Is pointed out that by arresting II
German and British residents Presidon
Castro has weakened his position .,n
put himself outside the pale OF inte
national law beside offending lt
United states. One paper suggest tlu
the seizure Of the customs has been d
lHyed IN Difference Of the objections %
the Pnlted States In landing troop
nd points out that the blockade 0
Venezuela Will only injure Britsi
American and German trade.
Other papers discuss the enormou,
expense and difficulty Of conductln
military operations in such a dihlcu Z
county should President Castro main
tain a defiant attitude, and the ques'
ton Of the utility of spending millions
OF pounds sterling In c0erclng a country
which cannot be annexted and is lilSelS
to prove bankrupt
CAPTURE OF THE BOLIVAR
Port of Spain, Trinidad, Dec. H.
The British cruiser Charbydis seized
the Venezuelan gunboat Ia this harbo
last night She landed the Bolivar
officers here, while the British slooI
Alert took the crew Of the captured
gunboat 10 the port Of La Guayra. stu
ated on the Venezuelan coast opposit
20 the island Of Trinidad.
The British torpedo boat destroyer
Quail has sailed with Instructions o.
capture the Venezuelan war vessel now
engaged In blockadlng the mouth of y
Olinoco. The entire coast OF Venezuela
from the Ornoco river to La Guayra
v III be blockaded from today by Britlsi
v ar vessels, while the Venezuelan coast
from La Guayra TO the Colombian
frontier win be blockaded by German
war vessels,
The commander Of the Charybdis sent
an officer and 80 men with q letter
TO the captain OF the Bolivar Informing
bin that he must not leave the harDor
OF Port of Spain without British per-
mission. He further minated that re-
sistance would be useless, Whereupon
Lieut.. Huarado, on behalf OF the cap
tain OF the Bolivar, who was absent,
surrendered and the commander or the
Charyhdls placed crew aboard the
Bolivar. The officers Of the Venezuelan
gGnboat accepted an offer TO land here.
ANGLO. GERMAN PLANS.
Berlin, Dec. lO--The naval plans OF
Germany and Great Britain provide
for the patrolling of the Venezuelan
coast by launches, In order to prevent
smuggling and for the blockade oil
those Venezuelan ports where the GUS
tom houses have not been taken over
In order to prevent vessels avoiding
the ports occupied by the allies.
Naturally this procedure, II IL pe-
comes necessary, would require num-
Der Of vessels, and as Great Britain
has more ships available In the west
Indies than Germany, a larger portion
Of the work will fall on England UNI
less Germany sends out addluonai
cruisers, according TO her first inten-
ton. Official suggestions supplied TO
the German newspapers and 10 the
English correspondents here lay stress
on the fact that the United States has
undertaken to safeguard diplomatical-
ly the German and British residents In
Venezuela until the dispute Is settled
Consequently, any affront offered TO
the resident Germans and British
which Is not In accordance with inter-
national usage would be an affront to
the United States and would cause that
power to protest. II is this considera-
ton which makes the German foreign
Office doubt the reported arrests ut
Caracas.
The foreign office is still without any
official advlces from La Guayra OF more
recent date than Monday night,
though newspapers have received tele-
grams dated Tuesday. This 1t is ex-
planned, Is because the correspondents
are using the overland telegraph lines
northward. while Charge Won Pilgrim
Baltazxi and Commodore Scheder, com.
handing the German squadron in West
Indian waters, must send their dis
patches to the nearest cable station.
The German governments reply TO
President CastrO's complaint that the
ultimatums were delivered irregularly
on a holiday at the private residence
of the Venezuelan foreign minister Is
that President Castro was Informed
that the ultimatum might be expected
and Germany and Great Britain, being
unwilling to delay action any longer
had them presented Sunday at the for
eigr minister's private house as his
Office was closed on that day.
HAY KNEW ALL ABOUT 1T.
Washington, Dec. 10.-It was said ut
the British and German embassies to-
day that the action OF President Castro
in ordering the arrest Of all subjects OF
the British and German governments
In Caracas was without precedent In