The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-11
aRRIyEs AT BORDEAUX.

of Venezuela, arrived here today from La Guayra. The French setamer Guad- eloJ pc, on which he left Venezuela No- vember 23, docked at Pauillac.
 A representative of Foreign Minister Pichon boarded the steamer and had an interview with Castro. after which the president and members of his party came up to Bordeaux on private car.
 The President was greeted at the railroad station bX Venezuelan col ony. The party then was driven In an automobile to a hotel.
 The President of Venezuela came down the gangplank of the Gaudeloupe escorting his sister. The weather was cold and 1t was raining. The presi- dential party proceeded to a private car. where the president received number of French merchants doing bus mess with Venezuela.
 Both at Pauitlac and Bordeaux. Pres ident Castro was presented with now CTS.
 The police are watching a third class passenger on the Guadeloupe whose at titude toward the NenezueIa,h plesiIeus t. "A is considered suspicious. This man is syrian and Is one of group or trad CTS coming from Venezuela.
 The landing of Castro at Pauhlac was Surrounded with a certain air of sgytsstefy. AS sss0fI as The HeaaIuaR hfta docised French commissary went aboard and insisted on speaking with the Venezuelan President alone.
 After half an hour, during which ne left the cabin twice. the commissary departed. He said he had come only to inquire. on behalf of the govern ment, concerning Castro's intentions and as Castro had replied that he came to F,urope for treatment, he would be allowed to land as a private citizen.
 The representative of Foreign Min Ister Pinchon who talked with the President received confirmation, it Is understood of his desire to conciliate France and arrange settlement or the differences between the two coun' tries in conformity with the adviceS forwarded to the government from santander by M. Merlious. the French Minister to Peru, who also was pas senger on the Guadeloupe.
 Castro himself kept his own counsel even withholding precise information of what had transpired from his doc tors.
 The hotel at which the President of Venezuela Is stopping is guarded by policemen, Detectives have followed the syrian passenger as well as an Egyptian passenger who came on the Guadeloupe. It appears that both these men embarked at Trinidad. where President Castro is said to have received threatening letters from the brother of a general he ordered shot at Caracas.
 A number of policemen were drawn up at the railroad station to restrain the people, but the assembled crowd was a small one and consisted prin- cipaliy of the Venezuelan residents of the city. On the way to the hotel, President Castro was hardly noticed. Once in the hotel, he locked himself up in his room. It has been positively stated that the President will leave here tomorrow for Paris but the mem bers of his staff are apparently in complete ignorance of future move ments,
 one of his aides said today. "Presi- dent Castro is an extraordinary man. No one knew he intended to leave Caracas until two days before he sail ed He makes no one his confidant; he decides everything. We simply await instructions
 It was learned today that the agent of Foreign Minister Pichon informed President Castro in the name of the French government that he would be welcomed as @ private citizen and that as a chief of state he would be given every protection during his sojourn in
  government was reached because of the conviction conveyed to it from various sources that President Castro was de- sirous of settling the difficulties be- tween Venezuela and France especial ly the affair of the French Cable Com pany which has been the principal understanding. When President Castro was informed of the energetic steps taken by Holland against Venezuela in the naval demonstrations along the coast last w0sk. he exclaimed vehe- mently that he did not believe Hol- land would violate the spirit of right ful dealings.
 The President said that after hlS operation, he expected to visit Spain | that the Pacific tone of thls country in dealing with Venezuela was some l thing he never could forget. Rebellion Against Castro.
 Caracas, Dec 10.-So sudden was the 1 departure of President Castro from l Caracas that his ministers knew of his intention to abandon the country only twenty-two hours before he was nn his way to La Guayra.
 Venezuela as consequence, finds herself facing a situation replete with | interest because of the prospect of Holland using force to obtain satis- | faction for insults and wrongs infiict- ed on her subjects; because of the pos
 sibility of the breaking out of revo- lution inspired both by Castros ab- sence and encouraged on the island of | Curacao; and because of an increas- | ing spirit of reaction against General