The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-14
Blockade of Venezuela Ports Is
Ordered Raised.
Protocols Providing a Settle
ment Are All Signed.
ENGLAND GETS CASH.
Italy and Germany Wait Thirty
and Sixty Days.
Minister Bowen Wires the News
to Castro.

London, Feb 1.-The Associated
Press is informed that instructions have
been telegraphed to the commanders of
the blockading squadron off Venezuela
to withdraw their ships in consequence
of the arrangements completed at
Washington. The blockade. therefore
viii be Immediately raised.
Berlin. Feb 1.-THE government is
telegraphing instructions today for rais-
ing the blockade of the Venezuelan
coast Immediately These instructions
may not reach all the blockading vessels
today, but it is expected that the block
ade will be fully raised by tomorrow or
Monday, especially since Commodore
Scheder has been expecting such in
structions and had arranged for their
prompt transmission.
Great Britain, Germany and Italy re-
ceived advance payments of $500 pounds
each. Great Britain receiving her pay
nent on signature of the protocol and
Germany and Italy within thirty and
sixty days from date. Germany in ad-.
dition viii receive five monthly pay
ments until the full amount paid her in
advance aggregates S340. 600 AS a guar
antee for the satisfaction of their claims.
Mr.. Bowen pledges the allies n share
with the other creditor nations IN 80 per
cent of customs receipts OF the two
ports of La Guayra and Puerto Cabello.
This percentage will be set aside be-
ginning March 1, and retained in the
Venezuela treasury until The Hague
tribunal shall decide whether. it shall be
distributed without preference among
the claimant nations, or whether the
allied powers of Great Britain, Germany
and Italy shall receive preferential pay
ments.
Italy by her protocol gains immediate
payment of her first cla- claims with
out further adjudication as soon as the
joint commission at Caracas shall have
passed on the remainder Of her claims
ia round numbers the adjudicated Ital-
ian claims amount to S5600o0 from
which will be subracted the $27,500 to
be paid her sixty days from signing OF
her first protocol The italian ambas-
sadoT also has secured for his govern
ment the insertion in his protocol of an
agreement that Venezuela VIII insert in
her treaty with Italy the favored ma
ton clause possessed, by the other ma
tions. Great Britain has left her pro-
tocol unchanged since it was approved
by the London foreign Office some days
1t is stipulated by the protocols that
the claims of the creditor nations shall
be adjudicated by joint committees to
+ consist in each instance of a Nenezu-
elan, a representative of claimant power
and in case of disagreement an umpire
to be named by the president OF the
United States. The protocols in proVid-
ing for reference of the question of
preferential treatment to The Hague.
do not state in detail methods of pro-
cedure by which the case is to be laid
before the tribunal. This will be done lie
a second set of protocols, the prepara-
ton Of which viii begin at once. It is
provided, however, that not Venezuela
alone, but all the other nations, shall
be permitted to appear with her before
the tribunal in opposition to the allies
claim for preferential payment. Upon
the signing of the protocol congratula-
tions We're exchanged by the four nego-
tiators
Mr. Bowen then dispatched q. brief
cablegram to President Castro inform
ing him of the signature of the pro-
tocols providing for the immediate rais-
ing of the blockade.