Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-02-20
PROTOCOLS ARE DULY SIGNED
FULL TEXT OF EACH Is MADE
PUBLIC.
The One With England Printed In De-
taiI-German and Italian Protocols
Correspond With that of Great Brit.
ain-Nine Articles In AIl--RIockade
to Be Lifted Immediately.

the protocols which were signed by
Minister Bowen and the representa-
tives of the allies has been made pub
lie. The text of the British protocol is
as follows:
| Whereas, certain differences have
arisen between the United States of
Venezuela and Breat Britain in con-
nection with the claims of British sub
lects against the Venezuelan govern
ment, the undersigned, Mr.. Herbert
| w. Bowen, duly authorized thereto by
the government of Venezuela, and his
excellency the Rt. Hon. Sir Michael H.
Herbert, X. G. M. g., G. B., his Brit
annie majesty's ambassador extraor-
binary and plenipotentiary to the Unit
ed States, have agreed as follows:
Article 1. The Venezuelan govern
ment declare that they. recognize in
principle the business of the claims
which have been preferred by his maj.
esty's government on behalf of British
subjects.
article 2. The Venezuelan govern
ment will satisfy at once, by payment
in cash or its equivalent, the claims of
British subjects, which amount to
about five thousand FIVE hundred
pounds (e5500), arising out Of the
seizure and plundering of British ves-
sells and the outrages on their crews
and the maltreatment and the false
Imprisonment of British subjects.
article 8. The Venezuelan and Brit
ish governments agree that the other
British claims, including claims by
British subjects other than those dealt
with in article hereof, and including
those preferred by the railway com
panies, shall, unless otherwise salts
fed, be referred to a mixed commits
sion constituted in the manner defined
in article 6 of this protocol and which
upon the amount to be awarded in sat
isfaction Of each claim.
"The Venezuelan government admit
their liability in cases where the claim
Is for injuries to, or wrongful seizure
of property, and consequently the CUES
tons to decide in such cases will only
be: (a) Whether the injury took place
and whether the seizure was wrong
| full, and (b) If so, what amount of COM
pensation is due.
I'm other cases the claims shall be
referred to the mixed commission with
out reservation.
ARTICLE A. The mixed commission
shall consist Of one Venezuelan mem
Ger and one British member. In each
case where they come to an agree
ment their decision shall be final. In
cases of disagreement the claims shall
pc referred to the decision of an UNI
pire nominated by the president OF
the United States of America.
Article 5. The Venezuelan govern
ment, being unwilling to provide a suf-
accent sum for the payment within a
reasonable time of the claims speci-
ned In article 8, and similar claims
preferred by the other governments,
undertake to assign to the British gov
eminent, commencing the first day Of
March, 1908, for this purpose, and to
ALLEVIATE no other purpose, 80 per cent
in monthly payments of the customs
revenues of La Guayra and Puerto Ca
bello. In the case of failure to carry
out this undertaking, Belgian officials
shall be placed in charge of the GUS
toms of the two ports and shall ad-
minister them until the liability of the
Venezuelan government in respect of
the above mentioned claims shall have
been discharged.
ANY question as to the distribution
Of the customs revenues so to be as
signed and as to the rights of Great
Britain and Germany and Italy to a
separate settlement Of their claims
shall be determined, in default of ar
rangement, by the tribunal at The
Hague, to which any other power in
terested may appeal.
Pending the decision of The Hague
tribunal the said 80 per cent of the
receipts of the customs of the ports
Of La Guayra and Puerto Cabello are
to be paid over to the representatives
Of the Bank of England at Caracas.
Article 6. The Venezuelan gov
eminent further undertake to enter in
to fresh arrangement respecting the
external debt Of Venezuela with a view
to the satisfaction of the claim of the
bondholders. This arrangement shall
include a definition of the sources from
which the necessary payments are to
be provided.
article Z. The Venezuelan and Brit
ish governments agree that inasmuch
as it may be contended that the es-
Enlistment of blockade of Venezue-
Ian ports by the British naval forces
has ipso facto created a state of war
between Venezuela and Great Britain
and that any treaty existing between
the two countries has been thereby
abrogated, it shall be recorded in an
exchange Of notes between the under.
signed that the convention between
Great Britain and Venezuela Of Octo-
Der 20, 1884, which adopted and con-
firmed mutatis mutandis the treaty of
April Is, 1925, between Great Britain
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