The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-20
FRANCE EARNEST Will Undoubtedly Force Venezuela to Make an Apology For Insult to
 M. Taigny.
WARSHIPS OFF THE COAST
THREE NOV THERE TO BE
 JOINED BY TWO OTHERS

DeIicacy of situation Increased by
 Treatment of American Minister at
 Caracas--This Government May Have
 to Send Warship to the Scene--
 Castro Arisinterprets Efforts of MT,
 Russell, Acting Under Instructions
 From Washington, to Secure Pcace~
 full Solution of the TroubIea--waah-.
 ingtOn Will Not Interfere wtth
 French Demonstration,
 Washington, Jan. 19.Three French warships are now off the Venezuelan coast, prepared to deliver the answer of France to President Castros treat- ment of M. Taigny, the French repre- sentative at Caracas, by a naval dem, onstration in Venezuelan waters. Two additional warships will join them as soon as they can make the trip across the Atlantic.
 Until the demonstration has been ini- tiated the French government will share only with the president and Sec- retary Root the knowledge of the exact form which this expression of her dis pleasure at President Castros action will take.
 Meantime the delicacy of the situa- ot ip tIx1 ir,0 Al news which has recently reached here from the Venezuelan capital regarding the attitude President Castro now ap- pears to be assuming toward MT. Rus sell, the American minister. Unless this attitude is radically modified 1t may be necessary to dispatch an Amer ican warship even nearer the Venezue- Ian coast than has already been planned. President Castro 1t is said, will be given to understand that any. treatment of an American representa- tive such as that accorded M. Taigny will not be tolerated by the Washing ton government The only cause which can be assigned here for President Cas- tro's coolness toward Mr. Russell is that the former insists upon regarding as personal rather than official the eff forts which MT. Russell, acting under instructions from Washington, has made to assist in a peaceful settlement of the Franco-V Venezuelan troubles. The request of the French government that its interests in Venezuela be looked aft CT by MT. Russell was immediately granted, for the reason that such q re- quest is invariably granted by a friend ly power, however, difficult the task
 France has adopted a simple pro- gramme for her treatment of the Ven- ezuelan situation. It provides for an immediate and comprehensive apology by President Castro for his treatment of M. Taigny, which treatment the Paris officials regard as Insulting" and "intolerable.'' Until this apology Is made discussion of the claims and oth- CT grievances which France has against Venezuela will be withheld. The French government regards the action of Pres ident Castro's agents in La Guayara, in refusing to permit M. Taigny to return to shore after he had boarded French liner as an act of war. France de- mands that her representative shall re- ceive the same treatment at Caracas as it gives the Venezuelan representative at Paris.
 Up to a late hour tonight the French embassy was without any aGyices from Caracas or Paris, but information re- garding the whereabouts of the French warships and their itinerary is momen- tarily expected.
 ii eu4.n0anee of the policy rigidly adhered to, MT. Jusserand, the French ambassador, who has kept the Wash ington government informed at ey .ry stage of the course to be pursued by France in Venezuela, had long con- ference with Secretary Root this after noon. Upon leaving the department the ambassador dismissed his carriage and accompanied the secretary as far as the embassy in MT. Roots automo- bile, the secretary then continuing his ride.
 At this conference MT. Jusserand gave to the secretary detailed account of the latest treatment to which M. Taig- ny was subjected, which was substan- tially the same as the account given by M. Taigny to the Associated Press correspondent at Willemstad several days ago.
 It now appears that three important dispatches containing instructions for M. Taigny never reached him, and the supposition is that they were intercept- .