The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-09
FRANCE TO JOIN.
viii Help in BIOckading Ports
of Venezuela.
Money Promised Her in Decem-
ber Has Not Been Paid.
WILL FORCE A LOAN.
Castro Can Get No More Money
From the Banks.
Stories About the Situation De-
cidedly in Conflict.
Will FORCE A LOAN.


New York. Jan. 9.-France probably
will join the European powers in the
blockade of the Venezuelan coast, says
the Worlds Port of Spain correspon-
dent for the reason that Venezuela has
failed to make the first payment of
100000 due on the French claim on
December 81. Venezuela also owes the
French Gable company $4,000 and the
company refuses to extend credit to the
government. President Castro's at
tempt to borrow money from the Bank
of Venezuela has failed. The govern
ment already owes that institution ST.
500, ,OO0
President Castro's next step will be
to force a loan from the merchants.
The better element in Venezuela is
urging him to give up his office. His
resignation has been publicly demand
ed in a speech delivered in the plaza
1t is impossible for him to hold power
beyond February General Matos, the
leader of the revolution in public let
ter guarantees a satisfactory settle
ment with the allies within "a hours
after he is inaugurated president of
/ Venezuela
THE OTHER SIDE.
Caracas, Jan. 9.-After two stormy
meetings. or the CdDlneI, all the COuul-
tions set forth in the replies of the
powers TO President Castro's last pro-
pOsal in the matter of settling the dis
pute through arbitration have been ac-
cepted by the Venezuelan government
The government considers these cOndi-
tions to be unjust but declares it is
obliged to yield to force The Nene-
I zuelan answer was delivered at the
United States legation here
The conditions of the powers cover
cash payments to the allies and guar
antee for payment of the balance OF
their claims. 1t can be said on good
authority that the question of raising
the existing blockade win not be con-
sidered.
The revolutionary movement under
General Matos is losing popularity
daily because of assistance it is allsg-
ed the German bloclzading vessels are
giving it in permitting the landing Of
arms for the revolutloniSts near
Higuerote. The leader of the revolu-
tionists Is called "Matos the German"
by the press
DISSATISFIED WITH Won HOI.-
LEBEN.
Berlin, Jan. 9.-Ambas assador Won Hol-
leben's leave Of absence from Washing
ton is pretty generally received here as
being his virtual recall, due it is said
to the dissatisfaction of the government
with his management of the Venezuelan
affair
This IS asserted without reserve in
important newspapers, and no official
den,als have yet been forthcoming. 1T
seems that the government feels that il
was misled or at least not fully in
formed by the Washington embassy re-
gpecting President RoOsevelt's attitude
wnen he was requested to arbitrate the
Venezuelan dispute. The opinion is also
that DR. Won Holleben's dispatches re-
gaTding the policy of the United States
in the Venezuelan business and its gen
eral foreign policy have been neither
/ adequate nor precise
= HOT MD SENDS A BATII .ESk1 IL.
The Hague Jan. 9.-In view of the
events in Venezuela the Dutch cruiser
. Holland has been ordered to remain In
West Indian waters, and the battleshlp
DeRUter is proceeding to Curacao.
A variety Of other reasons may have
; contributed to the lack of confidence
in the ambassador, the Vossische Zei-
. tung, for instance, attributes import
ance to the telegram sent by Emperor
! William to Mrs. Kipling, March D
1899. when Kipling was i'll in New
York The newspaper assumed that
DIR. Won Holleben counselled the send
ing of the telegram and that the en-
peror, especially since the publication
of Kipling's recent poem, The Row
ers,'' feels he was i'll advised
Emperor William, when Kipling was
i'll, wired as follows
ITO Mrs. Kipling.
Berlin, March s. 1S99-Mrs. RudyarG
Kipling, Hotel GrenOble. New York:
"As an enthusiastic admirer of the
. incomparative works of your husband
I await with anxiety news of his con
dition God grant that he may be
spared to you and to all who are
thankful to him for the heart moving
manner in which he has sung the
deeds of our great. common race.
; "WILLIAM II, r.
DR. Won Holleben's critics also aver
that he showed an unskilled hand II
the great champagne war and in tne
Witt incident and also in permitting
himself to become the object of press
matter of the statue of Frederick the
Great is also remembered with its in
different reception by part of the
American people This, it is alleged
DR.. Won Holleben ought to have fore
seen and he should have dissuaded tht
emperor from offering the statue t'
the United States
SEEMS TO SETTLE IT.
London, Jan. 9.-President Castro's re
. ply to the powers accepting the arbitra
y ton conditions of the allies was deliver
+ ed to the foreign Office this afternoon b.
/ Craig Wadsworth. third secretary of tn
I United States embassy. Mr. White. tn
s charge d'sHaires. is i'll and has beel
: in the country most of the week. Th
| reply is regarded as having much NOR
! fuality than expected and as deipitel-
settling the submission of all the diff
eulties to arbitration.
e Wagons to Garry Pupils to Schoul
Chapman. Kan. Jan "A new con
solidated school IN which four district
. ioin has been c7ened south of here.
l. s4.ooa stone scnool house has been com
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