Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-01-08
CASTRO SDOoMfD.
INTERNAL SITUATION IN VEN.
EzuELA RAPIDLY REACHING
A cRisla.
DEFEATED BY RtV0lUIt0NlSTs
cAsTRo's FORCES ARE kEPULsEp
MlTHiN EIGHT HOURS Of
So. CARACAS.
ALLIES AIDING The REBELS
AND THEY MAKE NO EFFORT
TO CONCEAL THEIR
ACTIONS.
DEFEATED BY RfvolUIioNlsTs

Willemstad, Curacao, Jan. Z. - The
internal situation in Venezuela is rap
idly reaching crisis.
1t is reported that q mob at Puerto
Cabello is threatening to set the town
on fire and proclaim revolution.
According to advices received here
the revolutionary troops have COM
pletely defeated President Castro's
forces at Gautiere, eight hours from
Caracas. Gen. Riera has repulsed an
attack on his position outside Coro
that was ordered by President Castro.
The revolutionists are cutting all the
telegraph lines, tearing up the railroad
tracks, and are hourly expected in the
immediate vicinity of Caracas. A
condition of extreme panic prevails
among those who have heretofore be-
lieved that Castro was invincible. A
committee Of the most prominent citi-
zens has gone to President Castro and
made representations of how hopeless
ly untenable is his position. But he
insists on holding on until his forces
are defeated in decisive battle. 1t
seems that this cannot be far distant.
President Castro is already planning
what he shall do when the inevitable
comes, but he will make desperate
fight before quitting, as he has no
chance to escape. The only alterna-
tive is Imprisonment ~~
No attempt is now being made by
the allies to conceal the fact that they
are affording assistance to the revolu-
tionists. sa
About fifteen hundred revolutionists
are reported to be marching on Car
acas. - eesA5ovss
Panic MomentariIy Arrested.
Caracas, Jan. THE financial panic
here has been momentarily arrested
by an agreement between the leading
traders of Caracas, La Guayra, Val
encia and Puerto Cabello and the
Bank of Venezuela: The traders have
agreed to accept the banks notes in
payment of all accounts. The run on
the bank has ceased.
Prodding Mr.. Castro.
Berlin, Jan. Z. - Great Britain and
Germany came to an understanding
four days ago to enforce the blockade
of the Venezuelan coast precisely as
though the negotiations for arbitfa-
tion were not going on. 1t was doubt
less In consequence of this understand
ing that the vessels at Porto CabellO
were taken, though both the foreign
Office and the navy department are yet
without advices showing that vessels
were taken or that marines were tenn
porarily landed. The official view here
is that the blockadeing commanders
acted quite in accordance with their
instructions. The allied governments
determination appears to be that pend
ing the signature of the arbitration
protocal the blockade within the limits
agreed upon shall be sharply applied.
Washington Worried.
Washington, Jan. 1.-THE responses
of the allied powers to Castro's last
proposition to submit Venezuela's
case to the arbitration Of The Hague
tribunal, have not yet been received,
but 1t is believed that the answers will
not be much longer delayed, as con-
tinuance of the present state Of af-
fairs on the Venezuelan coast is not
viewed with satisfaction here.
The blockade is understood to be
working injury to American lsterests,
therefore the desire is strong to see
the protocol (which will include a
provision for the termination of the
blockade) speedily agreed upon.
Mr.. Bowen's advices from Caracas
show that conditions there are very
much disturbed; that internal revolu-
tionary troubles have intensified and
that President Castro Is sorely beset.