The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-02-05
ANXIOUS FOR SETTLEMENT
Ambassadors Urge Allied Pow
ers to Give Way.
ALL. OPPOSE HAGUE TRIBUNAL.

Ministers at Washington Send Joint
Note Home Suggesting Compromise
On Preferential Treatment-Other
Claimants Ready to Accept Solution.
Washington, Feb. 4.-There are as
yet no advices from the allied govern
ments respecting the nature of the
next proposal they will submit to Mr..
Bowen, Venezuela's representative,
for a settlement of their claims, but
there is good authority for the state
rpent that the note OF Mr.. Bowen, ad-
dressed to the British ambassador
Monday, will result in an adjustment
of the trouble. Al the British embas-
sy yesterday the most important con-
ference that the representatives of
the allies have held among themselves
took place. AS a result of this confer
ence the foreign offices in London,
Berlin and Rome are in possession of
suggestions which, if adopted, will
mean the success of the Washington
negotiations and the raising of the
blockade. The allied powers have
been again requested by their repre-
sentatiyes TO consent to priority of
4 payment of their claims for limited
! period only and equality of all claim
ant nations thereafter Mr. Bowen
has stated that he is willing that the
allies receive preferential treatment
for one month"; if at the end o: that
1o;,
placed on an equal basis !, g lime
and proportionate paymens'. 1t is the
conviction of one of the ne ,otiatorr
least that this proposition of N
en- is eminently fair. It ins
compromise of the powers original
quest for six years preferential treat
ment, but will enable them to retain a
part at least of their prestige. The
feeling is growing that persistence
in their present position can result
only in loss of prestige for the allies
4 and bad feeling against them, not
only in Venezuela, but elsewhere
Z throughout the Americas. AS a result
of these considerations, it was agreed
at the conference at the British en-
bassy that note should be addressed
to the three governments of Great
Britain, Germany and Italy, setting
forth the exact attitude of the United
States toward the powers preferential
demand, the state of public feeling
here regarding it and urging prompt
1 acceptance of preferential payments
for period of from one to six months.
An answer is hoped for within the
next twenty-four hours.
The question of referring the one
question of preferential treatment to
The Hague for settlement came up at
the conference and it was evident at
once that the negotiators were one in
their opposition to calling in The
Hague tribunal, except as last resort
WEST POINTER DEFEATS REBELS
Castro's Troops, Under American
Leader, Win Decisive Victory.
Caracas, Feb. 4.-The government
troops under General Alcantara, a
graduate of West Point, have defeated
force of rebels. numbering 600, un-
der the revolutionary general, Du-
charme, on the Camatagua river, about
fifty miles south of Caracas. The
rebels were routed, their ammunition
and $50 prisoners were captured On
the receipt Of the news of the victory
prices on the Stock exchange here
jumped four points.
Since the routing of General Matos
and his army of 10000 men by Presi-
dent Castro near La Victoria, Oct. IS,
the remnants OF the rebel forces have
been dispersed in all directions The
scattered bodies of rebels, believing
that arms and ammunition had been
landed, lately reunited and to the num-
Der of about 1000, under Generals Ro-
lando and Ducharme, assembled at
Altagracia, at the entrance to the Gulf
of Maracaibo, and at Orituco, a vii
lage sixty miles south of Caracas.
General Ducharme, with 900 men,
advanced up the Camatagua river
President Castro sent force of 1000
troops against him under General AL
cantara, who took the rebels by sur
prise and routed them after seven
hours fighting Alcantara captured
thirty officers and 200 soldiers and all
the rebels reserve ammunition anS
fifty animals. The balance of Dr
charme's army fled in the direction
Orituco.