The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-17
CASTRO HAS
 NOVEL PLAN Proposes Attack Against
 New Orleans. VENEZUELAN IS INDIGNANT Wants to Avenge Alleged American Insults. crack-Brained President of Little Is~- public Defines Attitude h Pan-
 phlet Issued TAreush
 Adviser.
VENEZUELAN IS INDIGNANT

wiliemstad. Island of Curacoa, March i5.--According to trustworthy advices received here the situation in veue- zuela is unchanged. both internally and as to foreign affairs, except that the relations between Castro and the various legations at Caracas are It, tie more strained. Castro has now ceased to talk with the European rep resentatives concerning the venexue- Ian Indebtedness. and the recent recall |of General Aontio velulini, Second Vice-President of Venezuela, who has been In Europe for some time endeav- bring to arrange for settlement with fhe British and German bondhoIdern iu regarded as an indication that the ne- gotiations have failed. The members or the diplomatic corps are chafiinr un- der the state of affairs now exfstinr and some of them are frank in sayinr that the existing situation cannot be much further prolonged. It is said that none of the diplomats have, been able to have an interview with Castro concerning disputed internationai aues- tons for months. President Castro maintains his beliigerent attitude ana continues to make military prena ra- uons. He apparently regards an at- tack on Porto Cabelio and La Guayara as probable and has mounted six new French six-inch guns and number or small guns on the heights overlook ing these ports and has available three small coast defense vessels.
 venezueIans Restless.
 It Is said that the majority of yene- zuelans look upon the possibility of foreign intervention either with indif- Terence or favor, as political condis tions are causing much unrest.
 Neighboring republics seem to I'd. gard the protect of intervention with- Tout resentment. Brazilian newspapere are openly advocating . settlement. of ahairs in VenezueIa and the South American press generally Is less cal,s- tic of its criticisms of American inter- ference in the affairs of Southern re- publics.
 Castro's attitude Is reflected in q pamphlet just issued through one of his advisers. Colonel Juan Boiistfa La. medo. in which plans for sending 30.- 900 Venezuelans against New Orleans are disclosed. The pamphlet urges the public to avengs the insults offered to Venezuela by the Americans and de- Valley would be the most effective means of curbing the power of the Uni- ted States. The following Is an ex- tract from the pamphlet:
 Perhaps 30.000 Venezusians bearing the glorious national banner, that very banner whose floating iris illuminated the waters of La Plata with the splen- dor of the Venezuelan fatherland to the echoes of the clarions of Carabobo, of Bombona and of Ayacucho would to- day be sufficient to wash away the ifi- suit. which our gioriops flag has re- ceived from North America, in the very waters of the Mississippi
 Believes Ala Would Come. Cunduncurca is not more distant from Venezuela than the hostile land. and the territories which we have to cross in order to reach there are al- most all of the same fatherland. Coz lombia, the first of these, will readily open its frontiers to give passage to the sons of Bolivar. as well as Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Mexico. the fath- erland of Juares, feared by France ] and by Europe for his formidable and terrible patriotism. There can be no , doubt that our Latin brothers would willingly open the way for tue army of Venezuela, in order that the sons of ] Washington should not be allowed to believe themselves more valiant and } warlike than the sons of Bolivar. This may seem to many a Utopian vtsions but when we reflect that the North American squadron cannot operate in the forests and that traders will al- , ways be traders, inapt and cowardiy In feats of heroism, our hearts swell . within us and we are willing to take our stand in the vanguard among the distinguished heroes of the new world who are called once more to prove that Venezuela is immortal and the first to take up the glove which is ] thrown down today to the whole of Spanish America"
 There Is a constant movement of troops and it Is impossible to ascertain , how Castro's forces are distributed or how many soldiers he has. Practically all his army is made up of men from , the Andes. Most of them are part In- dian. They wear rough straw hatss coarse khaki uniforms and sandals.
 Resembles Chinese.
 As they march through the streets carrying their old fashioned rifles their appearance Is not unlike that of a Chi- nese military organization. Few white men are In the ranks and the negroes and Indians have had little training. Their weapons are old Spanish Mauser4 which kick so oadly that they do noe hold them to their shoulders when they fire, but hold them under their arms and do not take aim
 The artillery Is as inefficient as the infantry and foreigners say there IS not a gunner in the whole army who knows how to shoot the new French six-inch guns which Castro has mount ed at La Guayara and Porto Cabeifo. At present there ara several hundred soldiers in Caracas and probably 100 at La Guayara. Most of the army Is kept on the move in remote districts. where revolutions are threatened. Ev- cry day rumors of small uprisings in the interior are reported and the jaiis all over the country are filled with prisoners charged with political crimes.
 None of the revolutionary movements has strong financial backing, however. and Castro is so thoroughly entrenched that the foreign colony does not expect to see him unseated by any internal trouble. A recent issue of one of the Caracas papers contained intercepted letters to General Penalosa and Other prominent revolutionists in which they admitted their resources were SO slight